Close Reader

SUPREME COURT REPORTS ANNOTATED VOLUME 407

Information | Reference
Copy Selection
Case Title: Select some text within a
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, paragraph and click here to
petitioner, vs. SANDIGANBAYAN, copy the selected text. Citation
MAJOR GENERAL JOSEPHUS Q. included.
RAMAS and ELIZABETH
DIMAANO, respondents.

Citation: 407 SCRA 10 10 SUPREME COURT

REPORTS
More...
ANNOTATED
Republic vs.
Search Result
Sandiganbayan
1. recognized the application of
natural law in maritime G.R. No. 104768.
*
July 21
commerce. The Court has also
identified in several cases certain 2003.
natural rights such as the right
to liberty, [122People v. De los
Santos, 200 SCRA 431 (1991).] REPUBLIC OF TH
the right of expatriation, PHILIPPINES, petition
[123Roa v. Insular Collector of
Customs, 23 Phil. 315 (1917).]
vs. SANDIGANBAYA
the right of parents over their MAJOR GENER
children which provides basis for
a parent’s visitorial rights over
JOSEPHUS Q. RAMAS a
his illegitimate children, ELIZABETH DIMAAN
[124Silva v. Court of Appeals, respondents.
275 SCRA 604 (1997).] and the
right to the fruits of one’s
industry. [125Offshore
Industries, Inc. v. National Administrative Law; Pu
Labor Relations Commission, Officers; Ill-Gotten Wea
177 SCRA 50 (1989), citing
Philippine Movie Pictures Presidential Commission
Workers’ Association v. Premiere Good Government (PCG
Productions, Inc., 92
Armed Forces of the Philippin
The PCGG can only investig
2. 354 (1982); Salonga vs.
Hermoso, 97 SCRA 121; PAFLU the unexplained wealth a
vs. Secretary of Labor, 27 SCRA corrupt practices of A
...] the Supreme Court has
adverted to the enumeration in personnel who have either
the Universal Declaration in accumulated ill-gotten wea
upholding various fundamental
rights and freedoms. The Court,
during the administration
in invoking the articles in the former President Marcos
Universal Declaration has relied
being the latter’s immedi
both on the Constitutional
provision stating that the family, relative, subordinate
Philippines adopts the generally close associate, taking un
accepted principles of
international law as being part of advantage of their public of
the law of the nation [22Section or using their powers, author
3, Article II, 1935 Constitution;
Section 2, Article II, 1973
influence, connections
Constitution; Section 2 Article II, relationships, or (b) involved
1987 Constitution.] and, in no
other cases of graft a
little degree, on the tenet that
the acceptance of these corruption provided
generally recognized principles of President assigns their cases
the PCGG.—The PCG
through the AFP Board,
© Copyright 2020 Central Book Supply, Inc. All rights