The Law Office of Noel T. Canlas

15/01/2025

31/01/2024

Effective today, the office will use only +63 9176718100 as contact number. The +63 9989569628 will no longer be in use. Thank you.

22/01/2024

Cyberlibel under the Cybercrime Prevention Law has a prescriptive period of one year, akin to libel as defined under the Revised Penal Code.

Berteni Cataluña Causing Vs. People of the Philippines, Regional Trial Court of Quezon City, Branch 93, Office of the City Prosecutor of Quezon City, and Representative Ferdinand Ledesma Hernandez of the Second District of South Cotabato G.R. No. 258524. October 11, 2023 [Date Uploaded: 01/19/2024]...

05/11/2023

Legitimate and legitimated children may use the surname of their mother. Although Article 364 of the Civil Code states that “Legitimate and legitimated children shall principally use the surname of the father," the word “principally” in the provision does not mean “exclusively.”

"Aside from being unduly restrictive and highly speculative, the trial court's reasoning is also contrary to the spirit and mandate of the Convention, the Constitution, and Republic Act No. 7192, which all require that the State take the appropriate measures to ensure the fundamental equality of women and men before the law.

Patriarchy becomes encoded in our culture when it is normalized. The more it pervades our culture, the more its chances to infect this and future generations.

The trial court's reasoning further encoded patriarchy into our system. If a surname is significant for identifying a person's ancestry, interpreting the laws to mean that a marital child's surname must identify only the paternal line renders the mother and her family invisible. This, in turn, entrenches the patriarchy and with it, antiquated gender roles: the father, as dominant, in public; and the mother, as a supporter, in private." ~ Alanis v. Court of Appeals, J. Leonen, G.R. No. 216425, November 11, 2020

18/10/2023

Dear Clients,
Please be advised that our office will be closed from Monday, 30 October 2023, to Thursday, 2 November 2023. Regular office operations will resume on Friday, 3 November 2023.

For urgent concerns, please do not hesitate to communicate with us through our official channels. Thank you.

21/08/2023

When the employer fails to act on the seafarer's valid request for referral to a third doctor, the tribunals and courts are empowered to conduct its own assessment to resolve the conflicting medical opinions of the company-designated physician and the seafarer's chosen physician based on the totality of evidence. The employer simply cannot invoke the conclusiveness of the company-designated physician's medical opinion vis­à-vis the seafarer's chosen physician's medical opinion when it is because the employer's own inaction and neglect that the medical assessment was not referred to a third doctor.~ Benhur Shipping v. Riego, G.R. No. 229179. March 29, 2022

08/08/2023

Estate tax amnesty extended until June 14, 2025

01/06/2023

Habitual tardiness is a form of neglect of duty. Lack of initiative, diligence, and discipline to come to work on time everyday exhibit the employee’s deportment towards work. Habitual and excessive tardiness is inimical to the general productivity and business of the employer. This is especially true when the tardiness and/or absenteeism occurred frequently and repeatedly within an extensive period of time. ~ R. B. Michael Press, and Annalene Reyes Escobia v. Nicasio Galit, G.R No. 153510, February 13, 2008.

21/05/2023

“Where the party has voluntarily made the waiver, with a full understanding of its terms as well as its consequences, and the consideration for the quitclaim is credible and reasonable, the transaction must be recognized as a valid and binding undertaking, and may not later be disowned simply because of a change of mind.” ~ Coats Manila Bay, Inc. v. Ortega, G.R. No. 172628, February 13, 2009, 579 SCRA 300, 311-312.

15/05/2023

Code of Professional Responsibility and Accountability

A.M. No. 22-09-01-SC. April 11, 2023 [Date Uploaded: 05/15/2023]