Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra clarifies that foreign counsel Sarah Bafadhel was not tapped to defend the previous administration, or former President Rodrigo Duterte, but to protect the country’s legal and judicial system.
The Philippines has hired an international lawyer to help the country in its appeal to the International Criminal Court to reverse its decision to resume the probe into the Duterte administration’s war on illegal drugs.
According to Chambers and Partners, which ranks the most outstanding law firms and lawyers in over 180 jurisdictions, Bafadhel was first in the field of international criminal law for eight consecutive years. Guevarra clarified that the Office of the Solicitor General did not tap Bafadhel to defend the previous administration, or former President Rodrigo Duterte.
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