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Nov 23, 2023 · 1. Concept. Crimes against civil status – refer to those crimes that illegally change, alter, or modify an individual’s civil status. 2. Crimes against civil status. a. Simulation of birth. Simulation birth – refers to the act of deceptively making it appear that the parents of a newly born child are persons other than the biological parents.
May 6, 2024 · If the primary goal is to obtain compensation, a civil case may be more suitable. However, if seeking punishment or deterrence, a criminal case may be appropriate. Plaintiffs should also consider the impact of delays, as criminal cases often take precedence over civil cases in terms of court scheduling. Legal Guidance.
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According to official government figures, members of the Philippine National Police and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency killed 5,903 individuals during anti-drug operations from July 1, 2016 to September 30, 2020. This number did not include the deaths of those killed by unidentified gunmen whom Human Rights Watch and other rights monitors b...
On June 4, OHCHR published a report that found “numerous systematic human rights violations” in the Philippines, among them the killing of 208 human rights defenders and activists since 2015. Leftist activists and human rights defenders were key targets of physical and online attacks. On August 17, unidentified gunmen shot dead Zara Alvarez, a lega...
In June, a court in Manila convictedCEO Maria Ressa of the news website Rappler of cyber libel, along with Reynaldo Santos Jr., a former Rappler researcher. The case involved the retroactive application of the new law to an article that had been published years earlier. The case is one of several that Ressa and Rappler face as part of the governmen...
The Philippine government began in 2020 to seriously consider legislation to reinstate the death penalty. The move in Congress came a week after President Duterte used his State of the Nation Address in July to call for capital punishment by lethal injection for drug offenders. Reinstating the death penalty would violate the Second Optional Protoco...
At time of writing, the Philippines had one of the highest recorded numbers of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Southeast Asia, with 400,000 cases as of mid-November. The Duterte administration’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been led by former military officers, using police supported by the military, which has resulted in serious human rights ...
In October, the UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution that called for the Philippines to “ensure accountability for human rights violations and abuses, and in this regard to conduct independent, full, and transparent investigations and to prosecute all those who have perpetrated serious crimes, including violations and abuses of human rights....
Oct 16, 2023 · It's worth noting that the same action can lead to both criminal and civil charges. For example, a vehicular accident resulting in death may result in the driver being charged criminally for reckless imprudence resulting in homicide, while also facing a civil case for damages.
Overall, theft was the most common index or focus crime, followed by rape and physical injury. These were crimes considered serious in nature and occurring regularly and frequently....
civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights”.2 Thus, poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon. While the number of poor households in the Philippines has been slowly declining, the state still lags behind other countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in terms of poverty-reduction.3 As a
Human Rights Watch has documented the police planting weapons near suspects bodies to justify their lethal use of force. The Philippine National Police reported that 5,526 suspects were killed in ...
