Supreme Court condemns killings, threats against lawyers and judges
Supreme Court condemns killings, threats against lawyers and judges
“To threaten our judges and lawyers is no less than an assault to the judiciary. To assault the judiciary is to shake the very bedrock on which the rule of law stands. This cannot be allowed in a civil society like ours. This cannot go undenounced on the court’s watch.”
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Bulatlat.com
MANILA – The Supreme Court condemned the killings and threats against the officers of the court, saying the assault on the judiciary “cannot be allowed cannot in a society like ours.”
In a rare statement today, March 23, the SC en banc said they “condemn in a strongest sense every instance where a lawyer is threatened or killed and where a judge is threatened and unfairly labeled.”
“To threaten our judges and lawyers is no less than an assault to the judiciary. To assault the judiciary is to shake the very bedrock on which the rule of law stands. This cannot be allowed in a civil society like ours. This cannot go undenounced on the court’s watch,” the SC said.
The statement is in response to the calls of numerous lawyers’ groups to act on the killing of lawyers and judges, and to review the rules of procedures in issuing warrants.
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