There is something mystical about mornings. Depending on the time when one awakes, a mystery that awaits unfolding is hidden in plain sight. I am lucky to wake up every morning to the greeting of a smiling sun rising from somewhere behind the rolling hills of Guimaras. The Kanlaon
June 21, 2025
After the dust has settled in what was a raucous mid-term elections, the real work beckons. Candidates who garnered the highest votes now await their taking of oaths and then, assume the positions they were voted for. Their swearing in would clothe them with the legal personality known as
May 17, 2025
On Monday, voters from all walks of life will be trooping to the voting booths to cast their votes for the May 2025 Mid-Term Elections. The right of suffrage has had a colorful history. Challenges to the free exercise of the right to vote have been met throughout history.
May 9, 2025
News about the standoff between a motorist and a traffic enforcer has gone viral this week. A CCTV footage of the incident swirled over social media where it appears that a motor vehicle has changed lane from left to right to eventually make a right turn a few meters
April 25, 2025
Much has been said about tennis and the law but this column has yet to talk about tennis players and lawyers. Since it is Lenten Season which is usually a time for self-reflection, this columnist who is both a tennis player and lawyer has summoned some of the principles
April 17, 2025
In an article dated August 21, 2021 titled “Photocopies and the Original Document Rule,” this column extrapolated that photocopies are now admissible in evidence as they are. The salient portion of the previous article written when the new rules had just taken effect, reads: “It is readily observable that
April 12, 2025
Many Filipinos, whether tennis players or not, have followed Alexandra Eala’s (Alex) remarkable performance at the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) sanctioned tennis tournament in Miami, Florida, USA last week with the finals slated last Sunday. Popularly known as The Miami Open, top-ranked tennis players from all over the globe
March 31, 2025
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III So I’m sitting here in the middle of an urban jungle where nobody knows me- except, perhaps, my laptop and my coffee. I’m writing- as what I’m always doing- about the law and how it applies to life. There is always something to be discovered about the law. It
March 29, 2025
There is much ado about the purported “bad words” uttered by one performer on stage during the recent Dinagyang Kasadyahan festivities. It was reported that the singer uttered “yudi*pta” in the midst of singing. And because of this, the Iloilo City Council is poised to summon the event organizer
February 1, 2025
It’s Christmas. But where is Santa? The chunky white-bearded man in red bearing gifts for children in a sack had seemed to desert big malls here in Iloilo City as well as in other parts of the country. Whatever happened to Santa? The last sighting of this staple of
December 24, 2024
In a recent meeting with a foreign client, he pointed out to this column that online predators are on the prowl and this, according to him, is because people nowadays don’t look at people’s eyes anymore even if they are conversing, but rather on their smart phones. The meeting
December 14, 2024
Adoption has been the legal solution to spouses, partners, or couples’ lifelong problem of not having a child of their own. In law, adoption is deemed as a legal fiction that creates a parent-child relationship even if they are not blood related. The law on adoption in the Philippines
December 7, 2024