SC revamps divisions, reps in poll tribunals By Benjamin B. Pulta 06/04/2010

SC revamps divisions, reps in poll tribunals

By Benjamin B. Pulta 06/04/2010 The Supreme Court revamped the composition of the Tribunal’s three divisions and its representatives in the Senate and House electoral tribunal as a result of the retirement of former Chief Justice Reynato Puno. The Chief Justice sits as head of the high court’s First Division and ex-officio chairman of the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) and the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET). Before his appointment as Chief Justice, Renato Corona was the chairman of the SC’s Third Division and the House of Repre-sentatives Electoral Tribunal (HRET). In a series of administrative orders, Corona designated Associate Justice Conchita Carpio-Morales as the new chairman of the Third Division and head of the HRET. Presumtive president-elect Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III earlier had said he was inclined to take his oath before Carpio-Morales, the lone dissenter in the March 17 decision that exempted appointments to the SC from the constitutional ban on midnight appointments. Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio retained his chairmanships of the Second Division and the Senate Electoral Tribunal (SET). Court Administrator and SC spokesman Jose Midas Marquez said the appointments of Carpio-Morales and Carpio are crucial since the country has just undergone a process of elections..... MORE     Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100604hed4.html

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