The camp of former vice presidential candidate Walden Bello on Monday called on Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla to "walk the talk" in speeding up the justice system as it urged him to act on a petition for review filed in August 2022.
The camp of former vice presidential candidate Walden Bello on Monday called on Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla to "walk the talk" in speeding up the justice system as it urged him to act on a petition for review filed in August 2022.
Bello’s Legal Defense Committee said the petition for review on Bello’s cyber libel case was dismissed on August 29, 2022 “based on mistaken and trivial procedural grounds.” The camp then filed a motion for reconsideration on August 31, 2022 and an urgent motion to resolve the petition on January 16, 2023.“The Justice Secretary has vowed to speed up and unclog the notoriously slow justice system of the Philippines. In that regard, he has filed DOJ Circular No. 008… and DOJ Circular No. 027… Such resolutions are good in theory, but useless without practice,” it added.in first-level courts that have no probable cause with reasonable certainty of conviction.
The cyber libel complaint was filed against Bello by former Davao City chief information officer Jefry Tupas in March 2022. Bello, also a former party-list lawmaker, earlier said in a Facebook post that Tupas was “nabbed at a beach party where she and her friends were snorting P1.5 million worth of drugs.”she left after eating and prior to the operation that happenedGMA News Online has reached out to Remulla for his comment but he has yet to respond as of posting time.
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