Probationary employees and Due process in termination
A probationary employee, is one who is on trial by an employer during which the employer determines whether or not he is qualified for permanent employment...
Circumstantial evidence
Cases can be decided on circumstantial rather than direct evidence, but there are particular requirements for the former to be relied on...
Hearsay Evidence and the rule on Affidavits
Evidence, whether oral or documentary, is only hearsay if its probative value is not based on the personal knowledge of the witness but on the knowledge of another person who is not on the witness stand...
Foreign citizens and the Bill of Rights in the Philippine Constitution
Are aliens in the Philippines entitled to the protections of Article III, the Bill of Rights under the 1987 Constitution?...
The Case of the Vanished and Presumably Deceased Spouse
What if my husband or wife has been missing for years? Is he or she presumed dead? Can I remarry?...
Proving medical malpractice
How is medical malpractice proven? Conversely, how does a doctor defend herself from such a charge?...
Partial default in a case with multiple defendants
What if, in a case filed against multiple defendants, one defendant does not file his Answer but his co-defendants file theirs?...
Potestative conditions in contracts
The law on obligations and contracts allows to the parties of an agreement a wide latitude in the terms they set among themselves...
Mere denial and alibi are weak defenses
Someone accused of a crime before the Court should base her defense on more than merely denying the charges or claiming to be somewhere else when the crime occurred...
Foreign divorce and a former Filipino citizen
Consider a case where a former Filipino citizen who was divorced abroad wants to remarry in the Philippines. The foreign divorce will first need to be judicially recognized by a Philippine court...
