Palace legal team hit for ‘rush jobs’ on EOs
By Angie M. Rosales 08/16/2010 Sen. Joker Arroyo yesterday twitted Palace’s “brush” with the Supreme Court, when a recent directive by the Executive was practically struck down, saying President Aquino’s lawyers should learn to be cautious and not be eager beaver when it comes to policy matters. The senator’s comments were in relation to the case raised before the high tribunal for intervention, the matter of imposing the 12-percent value-added tax (VAT) on toll rates, executive orders (EOs) revoking midnight appointments and on that automatically promoting lawyers in government service to the rank of career executive service officer III (Ceso III). “That should not be happening. They should avoid it. Government, as much as possible should have not been involved in a case. Within a period of 46 days into office of the new administration, there’s already a case brought before the SC and it was one serious case. It’s unfair to the SC, for them to be given such a serious case,” he said, referring to the matter of the VAT on toll rates, the implementation of which was barred by the SC with a temporary restraining order (TRO)..... MORESource: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100816hed6.html |
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