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The
ascendancy of Davao City Rep. Prospero Nograles (Mayor Rodrigo
Duterte's "bestfriend") as the new leader of the
House of Representatives brings us back to that Makati hotel
episode when a neophyte congressman was caught with a well-known
female media personality after detectives hired by the irate
husband, who is the congressman's campaign manager, barged
in.
Caught
in a very uncompromising situation, the congressman, still
in his underwear, the congressman frantically scrampled for
the exit earning him the monicker, "burlesk king".
Well, friends, that congressman was elected early dawn yesterday
as the new Speaker in the House of Representatives after Jose
de Venecia was unseated of the post he dearly held for the
last three Congresses of the Republic of the Philippines.
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There
is no argument against the fact that Nograles is not only
a man of checkered past but he also has the propensity of
wrenching power grab not to mention his close association
before with the rumored extortionists in the Lower House called
as the "Gang of four".
Perhaps,
the only credential of Nograles in bagging the highest post
in the House of Representatives at the expense of de Venecia
is his being a bar topnothcer and classmate of First Gentleman
Mike Arroyo at the Ateneo Law School.
Let's
see what can Noglares as a leader of the House lorded over
for more than a decade by de Venecia who is the epitome of
the consummate "trapo".
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Judges,
prosecutors and members of the bar in Bohol will flock to
Ormoc City today to join the 8th Eastern Visayas Regional
Convention hosted by the Integrated Bar of the Philippines
and the Occidental Leyte Bar Association.
Chief
Justice Reynato Puno of the Supreme Court will be the keynote
speaker during the gathering which will be followed by a two-day
seminar on Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE).
IBP-Bohol
Pres. Jun Sales will lead the Bohol delegation of judges,
prosecutors and lawyers who will be attending the affair bearing
the theme "Laywers: Vanguards of Civil and Political
Rights".
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Among
the salient topics to be discussed during the 18-unit MCLE
seminar are the new rule on the Writ of Amparo, DNA testing
and updates on the Land Registration Act.
Speakers include Court Administrator Zenaida Elepano, Assistant
Court Administrator Nimfa Vilches, DOJ Undersecretary Linda
Malenab-Hornilla, UP Law Professor Harry Roque and CA Justices
Magdangal de Leon and Noel Tijam.
Registration
fee inclusive of the MCLE seminar is P4,000.
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For comments
and suggestions, just e-mail to the following e-mail addresses:
obiter@boholchronicle.com
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