PHNO-HL; PRESIDENTIAL COUSIN, GIBO TEODORO NOMINATED FOR CHIEF JUSTICE

PRESIDENTIAL COUSIN, GIBO TEODORO NOMINATED FOR CHIEF
JUSTICE

MANILA, JUNE 19, 2012
(PHILSTAR) Losing 2010 presidential candidate Gilbert "Gibo"
Teodoro has been nominated to the Chief Justice post.
Teodoro, a cousin of President Benigno Aquino III, topped the Bar exams in
1989. He is also a passer of the 1997 New York State Bar exams.
The losing presidential candidate was among the 40 names submitted to the
Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) as nominees for chief justice, as of Monday.
Also nominated to the post was former San Juan City Rep. Ronaldo Zamora.
The JBC has extended to July 2 the the submission of nominees and application
for chief justice.
The supposed deadline for the nominations and applications for the post was
Monday, June 18.
The JBC said that this would allow more names to be passed. The council has
also extended its deadline for the submission of a short list of candcidates to
President Aquino to July 30.
The other fresh nominees to the post were Supreme Court Associate Justice
Estela Perlas-Barnabe and Prof. Soledad Cagampang de Castro.
The list of nominees has been trimmed down following the disqualification of
two nominees and the decision of others to decline nomination.
A nurse named Jocelyn Esquivel was expected to be disqualified since the
Constitution requires that a chief justice must be a lawyer who had served as
judge for at least 15 years.
Another nominee, Hilarion Aquino, will be delisted since he is already 80
years old. The mandatory requirement age for SC justices is 70.
Laguna Assistant State Prosecutor Cesar Sasondoncillo, meanwhile, has
reportedly declined his nomination.
Lawyer Ma. Victoria Gleoresty Guerra, acting SC spokesperson, said the JBC
will publish the names of the nominees in a newspaper of national circulation
and set dates for their oral interview.
Acting Chief Justice Antonio Carpio and four other senior justices of the
High Tribunal - Associate Justices Presbitero Velasco Jr., Teresita Leonardo-de
Castro, Arturo Brion and Diosdado Peralta - were automatically nominated for the
post under JBC rules.
Associate Justices Jose Perez, Roberto Abad, and Maria Lourdes Sereno, the
first appointee of President Aquino to the SC, were also nominated for chief
magistrate.
Other nominees are Justice Secretary Leila de Lima, Bureau of Internal
Revenue Commissioner Kim Jacinto-Henares, and Solicitor General Francis
Jardeleza.
Also nominated to the SC post are elections commissioner Rene Sarmiento,
former solicitor general Francisco Chavez, retired judge Manuel Siayngco Jr.,
Rodolfo Robles, Pedro Aquino, Nepomuceno Aparis, Katrina Legarda and Integrated
Bar of the Philippines president Roan Libarios.
Members of academe nominated for the top SC post include Ateneo de Manila
University College of Law Dean Cesar Villanueva, University of the Philippines
College of Law Dean Raul Pangalangan, University of the East College of Law Dean
Amado Valdez, law professor Rafael Morales, former UP law dean Marvic Leonen and
former Makati City congressman Teodoro Locsin Jr.
Aside from Legarda, Pangalangan and Morales, all nominees have yet to accept
their nomination. - Edu Punay

'Next CJ must be intellectually, morally superior'
by David Dizon, ABS-CBNnews.com Posted at 06/15/2012 11:18 AM |
Updated as of 06/15/2012 5:17 PM
MANILA, Philippines – Age and seniority should not be deciding factors in
choosing the next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, according to former Chief
Justice Reynato Puno.
Puno said it does not matter if the next chief magistrate comes from inside
or outside the Supreme Court as long as he or she is "intellectually and morally
superior."
"If the new Chief Justice is someone intellectually superior and morally
superior, even if he comes from outside, he will be respected," he told radio
dzMM.
In the interview, Puno said age should not be a decisive factor in choosing
the next Chief Justice. He said the current Chief Justice of the United States,
John Roberts, is still young but is outstanding. Roberts was only 50 when he
became Chief Justice.
He also said he does not believe that seniority should be the deciding factor
in choosing the next Chief Justice.
Puno cited the importance of choosing a "healing" Chief Justice that will
harmonize the interdependence of the judiciary with the two other branches of
government.
He said the people's trust in the judiciary has suffered after the
impeachment trial of former Chief Justice Renato Corona as shown in recent Pulse
Asia and Social Weather Stations surveys.
"Sa aking pananaw yung bagong Chief Justice dapat talagang maging isang lider
na titingalain ng kanyang kapwa justices, titingalain ng publiko at titingalain
din ng ibang branches ng gobyerno. Siya ay dapat isang healing Chief Justice.
Isang harmonizer," he said.
Closure on dollar accounts
Puno said the controversy over the disclosure of Corona's dollar accounts
should be resolved by the Supreme Court even after Corona's conviction in the
impeachment trial. In the trial, the Senate voted 20-3 to convict Corona for his
failure to disclose all his assets in his statements of assets, liabilities and
net worth (SALN).
"Though we can say this is moot and academic, there are cases that even when
moot and academic, the Supreme Court still issues decisions because it could
happen again so that there is a right interpretation," he said.


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