CA upholds indigenous people’s claim to land Benjamin B. Pulta 07/13/2011

CA upholds indigenous people’s claim to land

Benjamin B. Pulta 07/13/2011

A ruling by the Court of Appeals (CA) has upheld the awarding of more than 22,000 hectares of land and sea made by the National Commission on Indigenous People (NCIP) in favor of the Tagbanua Indigenous Cultural Community in Palawan (TICP).

In its decision by Associate Justice Josefina Guevarra-Salonga, the appellate court denied the petition filed by the provincial government of Palawan questioning the ruling which awarded the Tagbanua a Certificate of Ancestral Domain Title (CADT).

Associate Justices Mariflor Punzalan Castillo and Franchito Diamante concurred.

“It bears stressing that our disposition herein does not touch upon the validity of the NICP resolution which became the basis of the subject since to do so would in effect allow a collateral attack on the legality of its issuance,” the CA decision stated..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20110713nat4.html