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Any violation of the Republic Act No. 3019, or the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act is an impeachable offense, on which a public official found to have acquired, whether in his name or in the name of other persons, an amount of property and/or money manifestly out of proportion to his salary.
Facade in 2023. The Sandiganbayan (lit. ' Support of the nation ') is a special appellate collegial court in the Philippines that has jurisdiction over criminal and civil cases involving graft and corrupt practices and other offenses committed by public officers and employees, including those in government-owned and controlled corporations.
Neri v. Senate (G.R. No. 180643) is a controversial 9–6 ruling of the Supreme Court of the Philippines which affirmed the invocation of executive privilege by petitioner Romulo Neri, member of the Cabinet of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, regarding questions asked during a Congressional inquiry on the controversial multimillion-dollar National Broadband Network (NBN) Project.
Amending the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act: Increasing the Prescriptive Period for Violations of the Act from 15 Years to 20 Years 2016-07-21: 10911: Anti-Age Discrimination in Employment Act 2016-07-21: 10912: Continuing Professional Development Act of 2016 2016-07-21: 10913: Anti-Distracted Driving Act 2016-07-21: 10914: Granting ...
Section 56 of the Indigenous People's Rights Act of 1997 or the IPRA Law states that "property rights within the ancestral domains already existing and/or vested upon effectivity of this Act, shall be recognized and respected." This section is problematic as it means that any title before 1997 holds more weight than an ancestral claim.
San Antonio, Pasig City. The Presidential Commission on Good Government ( PCGG) is a quasi-judicial government agency of the Philippines whose primary mandate is to recover the ill-gotten wealth accumulated by Ferdinand Marcos, his immediate family, relatives, subordinates and close associates, whether located in the Philippines or abroad.
The right to freedom of religion is enshrined in the Constitution of South Africa. Chapter 2 of the Constitution of South Africa, containing the Bill of Rights, states that everyone has the right to freedom of religion, belief and opinion. Section 9, the equality clause, prohibits unfair discrimination on various grounds including religion. [6]
In California, the Bane Act allows people to sue when their civil rights have been violated, and in 2022, New Mexico passed a civil rights act that permits lawsuits for constitutional violations ...