Philippine Law Updates
Philippine Law Updates is a podcast about relevant Philippine laws and jurisprudence compiled by Amicus Juris Production, a group of volunteer lawyers and law students based in Iloilo City and the Ilonggo Volunteer Lawyers (IVL). Excerpts from Supreme Court decisions are featured in this podcast.
Podcasting since 2025 • 21 episodes
Philippine Law Updates
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AIKO YOKOGAWA-TAN versus JONNELL TAN AND THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES [ G.R. No. 254646, October 23, 2023 ]
The existence of grounds for legal separation does not foreclose the possibility of psychological incapacity.#nullityofmarriage#philippinelawonmarraige#supremecourtdecision
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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FRANCHESKA ALEEN BALABA BUBAN, PETITIONER, VS. NILO DELA PEÑA,* RESPONDENT. [ G.R. No. 268399, January 24, 2024 ]
"A dismissed employee is entitled to moral damages when the dismissal is attended by bad faith or fraud or constitutes an act oppressive to labor, or is done in a manner contrary to good morals, good customs or public policy." Bad faith connote...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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SPOUSES CHRISTOPHER AND CARMEN NUÑEZ, PETITIONERS, VS. DR. HENRY DAZ, RESPONDENT. [ G.R. No. 246489, January 29, 2024 ]
It cannot be overemphasized that Dr. Daz cannot be assumed to be responsible for the bursting of the water bag. Precisely, that it gave way cannot be attributed to his fault. It goes deep into a discussion on the instrument itself or its dilapi...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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9:15
MALAKI AND SALANATIN-MALAKI VS. PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES [ G.R. No. 221075. November 15, 2021 ]
A party to a civil marriage who converts to Islam and contracts another marriage, despite the first marriage's subsistence, is guilty of bigamy. Likewise guilty is the spouse in the subsequent marriage. Conversion to Islam does not operate to e...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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XXX, PETITIONER, VS. PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, RESPONDENT. [ G.R. No. 252739, April 16, 2024 ]
Pursuant to its policy to protect the safety, health, and welfare of women and children, the State has a duty to acknowledge the different, but no less damaging forms, that violence and abuse can take, to provide meaningful safeguards that conc...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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