by Tranquil G.S. Salvador IIIAccording to Wilhelm Reich narcissists ‘possess an attitude of superiority, are confident, arrogant, provocative, resenting of subordination, and are mildly sadistic in their relationships’“The term ‘narcissism’ originated from the R Read More....
by Tranquil G.S. Salvador IIIThere are also instances when even the identity of prospective clients or single consultations with a lawyer cannot be disclosedA lawyer-client relationship starts when the lawyer and client execute a written agreement stipulating the terms and c Read More....
by Tranquil G.S. Salvador III
If the proximate cause of the injury is the defendant, the plaintiff can recover damagesNegligence is “the conduct which creates undue risk of harm to
another, the failure to observe that degree of care Read More....
by Tranquil G.S. Salvador III“A witness cannot be examined after the conclusion of direct, cross, re-direct, and re-cross examinations”Every witness presented by a party in court during the presentation
of evidence cannot be detained longer than the interest of justi Read More....
By Saul Hofileña Jr.
NOW, let me tell you why I want to write about one of the august
buildings around the Padang of Singapore, a historic place and
ceremonial ground in that island republic. Padang means field in Bahasa
Melayu, and the building I am referring to is Read More....
By Saul Hofileña Jr.
THE island of Luzon is traversed by three mountain ranges. Its
geological spine, the Sierra Madre Mountain Range, is a 540-kilometer
stretch from Cagayan to Quezon. The Cordillera Mountain Range, measuring
320 kilometers cuts through Nueva Vizcay Read More....
By Saul Hofileña Jr.
WHEN you enter Butuan City in Agusan del Norte, you will be welcomed
by a regally seated golden goddess. The statue, which is a 3-feet tall
enlarged replica of the real "Butuan goddess," is an 18-karat gold
figure supposedly found by a Manobo w Read More....
By Saul Hofileña Jr.
I RECENTLY released a book entitled "Juicio Final." It is a history
book with paintings that would give visual life to the stories. The
cover of the book shows an imposing Igorotta which was borrowed from the
frontispiece of a book written Read More....
By Saul Hofileña Jr.
ON my first trip to the United States, I took a tourist bus in New
York City and understood why it was described as a concrete jungle in
some books I had read. In lieu of trees, there were skyscrapers, growing
beside each other, casting shadows on Read More....
IN LEGAL TERMS
By Saul Hofileña Jr.
IT is a series of dashes, nine in all, that presents and outlines in a
vague way, China's claim on the South China Sea (SCS). The nine-dash
line encroached on the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and continental
shelf of the Philippines Read More....
By Tranquil G.S. Salvador IIIThe office of the Ombudsman is an investigative body tasked to
“investigate on its own, or on complaint by any person, any act or
omission of any public official, employee, office or agency, when such
act or omission appears to be illegal, unj Read More....
IN LEGAL TERMS
By Saul Hofileña Jr. BECAUSE of uncommon heat and dryness, destructive fires are
commonplace. A poet once wondered whether the world would end by fire or
ice, but after partaking of desire, he said, he favors those who favor
fire. Conflagrations are no Read More....
By Saul Hofileña Jr. FIRST, let me define what a shoal is.It is a sandbank or
sandbar that makes the water around it shallow. For example, the former
Engineer's Island, now the Baseco (Bataan Shipping and Engineering
Company) is a sandbar. That is Read More....
By Saul Hofileña Jr I HAVE been in trial practice for almost four decades, which means I
have waited on judges for hours on end while reading tabloids until the
information that they contained became stale news. This is my take on
the highly controversial Arnolf Read More....
By Saul Hofileña Jr.
April 22, 2023 RAPHAËL Lemkin, a Jewish Polish lawyer, was the person who coined the
word genocide. It came from the Latin words genus meaning race and cide
meaning kill. Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large number of
people of a Read More....
By Saul Hofileña Jr.IN LEGAL TERMS
THE Holy See has announced Pope Francis I's repudiation of the
"Doctrine of Discovery," which many centuries ago was invoked by the
monarchs of Spain and Portugal to seize lands, which previously belonged
to somebody else. Accor Read More....
IN LEGAL TERMS
By Saul Hofileña Jr. April 8, 2023THE abolition of the tobacco monopoly by virtue of a decree dated
June 25, 1880 signaled the start of a heyday for would-be Chinese
tobacco manufacturers. The fact that the headquarters Read More....
byTranquil G.S. Salvador III March 24, 2023, 12:05 am The office of the Ombudsman is an investigative body tasked to
“investigate on its own, or on complaint by any person, any act or
omission of any public official, employee, office or agency, when such
act or omis Read More....
IN LEGAL TERMS
By Saul Hofileña A TABLEMOUNT is a mountain or volcano with a flat top or summit that
is found under the sea. It is also known as a guyot (pronounced as
"gee-yow"), a name derived from the Swiss American geologist, Arnold
H Read More....
BY SAUL HOFILEÑA JR.March 18, 2023 12:04 AM
IN LEGAL TERMS
EMANUEL Lasker, a philosopher and World Chess Champion, postulated a
hypothetical creature called the "macheide." Lasker said that the
"macheide" is a being whose senses are so sharpened by evolution and Read More....
By Tranquil G.S. Salvador III March 10, 2023, 12:10 am“Where the witness is permitted to use a memorandum when on the witness
stand, he may be cross-examined as to the same and it may be inspected
by the cross-examiner”Not all documents presented to a witness during trial Read More....
By Tranquil G.S. Salvador III March 3, 2023, 12:10 am“Savings from the purchase of stolen personal property may
not be enough to compensate for years of imprisonment, civil liability,
and cost of litigation.”Everyone wants to save money for the rainy days.Thus, buying per Read More....
By Saul Hofileña Jr.February 25, 2023
LAST year, Benjamin "Benhur" Abalos Jr. was appointed as secretary of
the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG). President
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. could not have chosen a better person for that
sensitive portfolio. At ag Read More....
By Tranquil G.S Salvador IIIFebruary 17, 2023, 12:00 am
“The maximum area for quarrying which a qualified person may hold at any one time shall be five hectares”Mining plays a vital role in the country’s economic development. It
opens employment opportunities, fuels i Read More....
IN LEGAL TERMSBy Saul Hofileña Jr.February 18, 2023
IN 1783, the brothers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier
wowed the crowd gathered at Annonay, France with their invention. A year
before, they had discovered that when heated air is collected inside a
fabric Read More....
By: Tranquil G.S. Salvador III
“The maximum area for quarrying which a qualified person may hold at any one time shall be five hectares”Mining plays a vital role in the country’s economic development. It
opens employment opportunities, fuels infrastructure growth in a Read More....
BY SAUL HOFILEÑA JR.Febuary 4, 2023
IN LEGAL TERMS
LAST Friday, Dean Perry Pe invited me to dinner at Raffles Hotel
which I gladly accepted because the guest speaker was Supreme Court
Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo, a man Read More....
BY SAUL HOFILEÑA JR.Jan 28, 2023 12:00 am
IN LEGAL TERMS
MONUMENTS are tributes to people who have done us great good.
Historical markers are Read More....
by Tranquil G.S. Salvador III January 20, 2023, 12:00 am
“There are limitations upon the right of ownership,
which include general limitations…limitations of legal servitudes or easements,
limitations by contract or will, limitations imposed by the owner himself Read More....
BY SAUL HOFILEÑA JR.Jan 21, 2023A FRIEND of mine consulted me about a problem: For several months, he
was consulting a "lawyer" who turned out not to be a lawyer at all. To
make matters worse, he was conducting his business on the basis of the
impostor's advice. I told him Read More....
BY SAUL HOFILEÑA JR.Jan 14, 2023
IN LEGAL TERMS
THEY used to say that cryptocurrency is the wave of the future and
that your block chained account will be well protected by a system of
unbreakable codes. Your money, which will be converted into
cryptocurrency, w Read More....
BY SAUL HOFILEÑA JR.Jan 07, 2023 12:01 am
IN LEGAL TERMS
YOU got me right. The Philippines is not only the richest Catholic
country in Southeast Asia (because we are the only Catholic country in
Southeast Asia), our navy is also the most powerful blue water navy on Read More....
BY SAUL HOFILEÑA JR.DEC 24, 2022
IN LEGAL TERMS
PACTA sunt servanda is a brocard
which in English means "agreements must be kept." It is a maxim or rule
which states that the provisions of treaties should be honored, that
"every treaty in force is binding upon th Read More....
BY SAUL HOFILEÑA JR.DEC 31, 2022 12:01 AM
IN LEGAL TERMS
LONG before the war in Ukraine, I went to a place nearest to the
North Pole together with my classmate Perry Pe and a few bosom friends.
The North Pole as you know is the bailiwick of Santa Claus, the kingpin Read More....
By Tranquil G.S. Salvador III DEC 16, 2022 12:01 AM
“Since contracts have the force of law between parties, it
must be complied with in good faith”
A contract is a transaction involving two or more
individuals whereby each becomes obligated to the other, with reci Read More....
BY SAUL HOFILEÑA JR.DEC
07, 2022 12:00 AM
IN LEGAL TERMS
THE Pacific Ocean is 64 million square miles in size and lies between
the United States of America and the Republic of the Philippines, and
so vast is this body of water that if you relocate the seven co Read More....
BY SAUL HOFILEÑA JR.DEC
03, 2022 12:01 AM
IN LEGAL TERMS
PRACTICALLY, the whole of Asia was once
colonized by Western and European Powers. The Pacific Ocean was known as the
Lago Española or the Spanish Lake until the signing of the Treaty of Paris when
it bec Read More....
BY SAUL HOFILEÑA JR.NOV
19, 2022 12:01 AM
IN LEGAL TERMS
WHETHER paid in British pounds, US dollars or Saudi riyals, a
slave is still a slave.
In the 21st century, human trafficking is the third most illegal
activity in the world after gun smuggling and drug Read More....
BY SAUL HOFILEÑA JR.NOV 26, 2022 12:02 AM
IN LEGAL TERMS
THE dreaded bar examinations have just ended, and for those who
took it, let me reveal a thing or two about your past and present situation,
and what your future will probably Read More....
Defenses in Libel
BY SAUL HOFILEÑA JR.
OCT 29, 2022 12:01 AM
Second part
IN my previous article, I mentioned
that the crime of cyber libel is libel punishable under the Revised Penal Code.
The crime becomes cyber libel if a computer or the internet or informati Read More....
Sierra Madre, 'The
Forest,' Amnesty and PardonBy: Saul Hofileña
Jr. IMMEDIATELY after taking the 1985 bar examinations, I
hied up to the mountains of the Sierra Madre to wait out
the bar examination results. I lived alone in a farm, used the squawking of
hornbills to det Read More....
The Thucydides TrapBy Saul Hofileña
Jr. My friend, Euston
Quah, asked me to attend an important webinar. Winsemius Chair of Nanyang Technological University and fellow of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Euston is a master
of understatement, and his words therefo Read More....
Testigo del estadoBy: Tranquil G.S. Salvador III “The purpose is to avoid letting a crime go
unpunished.”When a group of people commit a crime and there are no
witnesses who can positively identify them, the prosecution may apply for the
discharge of one or a number of th Read More....
Perpetuation of
testimony in heinous crimesBy: Tranquil G.S. Salvador III “There is a void in gathering the testimonies of vital
witnesses immediately after the commission of heinous crimes.”I usually base my articles on existing laws and
jurisprudence, but I am making an Read More....
Ukraine
and war crimes By: Saul Hofileña
Jr.In Ukraine,
in a place called Zaporizhzhia, the Russians targeted a nuclear plant, which is
said to be Europe's
largest. Earmarking for destruction the Zaporizhzhia plant is a grave breach of
the Geneva Conven Read More....
Mercenaries By: Saul Hofileña
Jr. MERCENARIES
fight for money not for freedom, not for love of country nor for anything that
makes death worthwhile or magical. Mercenaries fight for nothing more than
personal gain. Coming from the Latin word mercenaries, a mercenary is som Read More....