By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III App-based food delivery services GrabFood and FoodPanda have become household names since the strictest lockdowns were imposed last year. The mechanics for availing their services is simple: you download the app, click the restaurant you desire to order from, place your order, and in minutes, the food delivery
March 20, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III In light of the recent spate of physical assaults on lawyers and the controversial letter swirling on social media that purports to be a request from an intelligence officer addressed to the Office of the Clerk of Court of Calbayog, Samar, for the names of the lawyers representing
March 15, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III The celebration of International Women’s Day this year appears to be more than a mere twenty-four-hour affair-it is proving to be a reinvigorated struggle for equality that reverberates around the world. China woke up to the shocking news that a divorce court ordered a husband to pay $7,700
March 10, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III CONTROVERSY is rife in regard to the issue of whether bicycles will be allowed to traverse Esplanade 1 and 2. This came on the heels of a protest by a cyclist who was barred from passing through Esplanade 1 and 2 by City Hall employees manning the entrance
March 2, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III In a landmark decision which was handed down by the Philippine Supreme Court on 11 November 2020 but was uploaded on the SC website only on 22 February 2021, it granted the petition of ANACLETO BALLAHO ALANIS III to change the following entries in his certificate of live
February 27, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III The Iloilo City government’s plan to mandatorily require Covid-19 inoculation as a condition for continued employment is surely coming from a good place. And it is surely within the general powers of a local government unit to flex its police power to protect the general welfare or interest.
February 25, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III After emerging from the lockdown, people began to realize the debilitating effect of the total standstill of economic activity on their bank account. To be sure, people’s bank account passbooks registered more withdrawals than deposits, more outflows than inflows, while the stay-at-home edicts were in effect. Not
February 18, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III FEBRUARY has always been known as “love month” and this week is “heart’s week” which highlights on Sunday- Valentine’s day. Affairs of the heart are always a titillating discussion especially when the subject of court litigation. This article is a survey of court cases about love and marital
February 9, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III PONZI must have a multitude of faces. The lure of get-rich-quick-schemes still never fails to captivate since 1919 up to today. It must be as tempting as an illicit affair that people cannot seem to resist to take the plunge. Reeling from the ill-effects of Covid-19 that obstinately
February 1, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III Character. Reputation. Why are they so important to a person that he/ she would go so far to defend them to the death? In Napoleon Hill’s book entitled “The Law of Success”, he made a sharp distinction between the two, thus: “Reputation is that which people are believed
January 28, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III It is such a major letdown of confidence when the people’s own government trammels their most-prized freedoms and liberties. The freedom to think and to believe, as well as the concomitant right to extrapolate on such thoughts and beliefs, are not only inborn rights- they are also absolute.
January 21, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III On the heels of Brexit, it has been reported that Google and Facebook are relocating their legal responsibility for privacy matters to California from Europe. This means that these tech giants will only answer in California, USA, to any complaints, controversies or cases by their users arising from
January 14, 2021