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24/07/2025

📢 𝗖𝗦𝗖 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗥𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗱𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗹 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 (𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗖𝗦)!

The updated RACCS reflects key laws, Supreme Court rulings, and evolving governance practices streamlines how disciplinary and non-disciplinary cases are handled in government.

Chairperson Atty. Marilyn B. Yap, DPA led the Commission to act swiftly in completing the RACCS and ensuring its swift release to strengthen capabilities at resolving disciplinary cases. This revised framework promotes accountability, transparency, and efficiency in the civil service.

Key features include:
⚖️ Integration of RA No. 11032 and RA No. 9285
👩‍⚖️ Virtual and clarificatory hearings
📄 Electronic filing
💼 Revised rules on dishonesty and sexual harassment cases

📖 Read the full news release here: https://csc.gov.ph/csc-revises-rules-on-administrative-cases-in-the-civil-service

17/07/2025

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📜 Fraud, Silence, and Stereotypes: Rethinking Roldan Through a Gender Lens

Is silence always a sign of guilt?
Can softness be proof of deceit?
Is marrying a homosexual still considered “shameful”?

This week’s Thursday Think Piece asks urgent questions about how our courts interpret gender, honesty, and identity. The Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Roldan v. Roldan annulled a marriage on the ground of “fraudulent concealment of homosexuality.” But beyond the legal doctrine, what cultural scripts are we reinforcing?

⚖️ Is Roldan v. Roldan Aligned with the Supreme Court’s Gender-Sensitive Vision?

✅ Where it aligns:

- Recognizes fraudulent concealment of homosexuality as a valid legal ground for annulment (under Article 45[3], Family Code).

- Upholds that vitiated consent may nullify marriage.

❌ Where it conflicts:

- Uses gender-stereotypical language suggesting that homosexuality is shameful or disgraceful.

- Interprets effeminacy and shyness as deception, rather than social or personal complexity.

- Treats the husband’s silence as proof of guilt, overlooking how q***r identities often navigate silence as survival.

🧠 SPJI Goals Potentially Missed:

- Unmasking Patriarchy: Instead of questioning the shame narrative, the Court echoed it.

- Consciousness Raising: Failed to consider the social risks of coming out.

- Contextual Reasoning: Interpreted gender nonconformity as fraud without deeper inquiry into intent.

As a professor of Gender Sensitivity, Law on Women and Rights of Children, I offer this commentary not as defiance, but as duty—to unpack how language, silence, and stereotypes shape the pursuit of justice. Because in law, what we decide matters—but how we reason reveals the kind of society we’re shaping.

📝 Read the full piece here: www.sthlegal.com/blog-1-1/fraud-silence-and-stereotypes

📣 Share your thoughts. How should our courts grow toward a more inclusive justice?

A pile of magazines—photographs of half-naked men—sparked a confession. The husband came out years into the marriage. The wife sued for annulment based on fraudulent concealment of homosexuality , a ground recognized under Article 45(3) in relation to Article 46(4) of the Family Code. The Suprem...

12/07/2025

🩺 Informed Consent: Sharper Than a Scalpel
Before the cut, there’s a choice.
Before the signature, there should be a story.

This isn't just about paperwork—it’s about the kind of medicine that listens.

Ever sat through a medical explanation that felt more like a riddle than a conversation? You’re not alone.

Let’s talk about what real consent should look like—clear, honest, human.

👇 Tag someone in med, law, or nursing who needs to be in this conversation.
📩 Read more at sthlegal.com.

The law, seen and heard—through real lives.

27/07/2024

Let's find out the voting requirement for the passage of an appropriations ordinance by the local Sanggunian. How many votes do you think it takes to green-light those crucial budget decisions? Stay tuned to uncover the answer!

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26/07/2024

"It is elementary in criminal law that a single criminal act may give rise to a multiplicity of offenses and where there is variance or differences between the elements of an offense in one law and another law, as in the case at bar, the constitutional protection against double jeopardy is not available where the second prosecution is for an offense that is different from the offense charged in the first or prior prosecution, although both the first and second offenses may be based upon the same act or set of facts." (People v. ###, G.R. 258194, May 29, 2024)

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25/07/2024

Can a repatriated seafarer claim disability benefits when he has yet to accomplish some medical exam tests within the 120 days for the physician to issue final medical assessment on his disability rating? Find out.

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24/07/2024

𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: 𝗟𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗥 𝗔𝗗𝗩𝗜𝗦𝗢𝗥𝗬 𝗡𝗢. 𝟭𝟳-𝟮𝟮 on the 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗪𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗢𝗰𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 to guide employers and workers on the pay rules where there is suspension of work to ensure the safety and health of employees during weather disturbances and similar occurrences.

Please be guided accordingly

(The Labor Advisory 17-22 was issued in 2022. The said Advisory is still effective without any new guidelines issued amending or superseding the same.)

𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐏𝐃𝐅:

https://www.dole.gov.ph/news/labor-advisory-no-17-22-suspension-of-work-in-the-private-sector-by-reason-of-weather-disturbances-and-similar-occurences/

24/07/2024

What remedies are available to the heir of a deceased government employee whose house and lot secured with GSIS loan is threatened to be foreclosed/canceled due to failure to pay amortizations? Find out below.

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23/07/2024

A Filipino seafarer who has multiple wives and a plentiful of children dies. Who is entitled to his "contractual death benefits" under POEA Memorandum Circular No. 10, series of 2010? How do you divide such death benefits?

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22/07/2024

A must-read for gym buffs. Does your gym or fitness center have the legal obligation to check your blood pressure before every workout? Or have an on-site doctor always? Does your gym have liability when you get sick during your work out?

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21/07/2024

Human trafficking is not a myth. It happens to real people mostly to the most vulnerable. Let's all do our part to end human trafficking.

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