http://thewarriorlawyer.com/2008/03/06/executive-privilege/ Lawyer in the Philippines Sat, 09 Jul 2011 19:14:53 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://thewarriorlawyer.com/2008/03/06/executive-privilege/comment-page-1/#comment-22987 The Warrior Lawyer | Philippine Lawyer » Supreme Court Upholds Neri’s Claim of Executive Privilege; Senate Contempt Order Nullified Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:44:08 +0000 http://thewarriorlawyer.com/2008/03/06/executive-privilege/#comment-22987 [...] Voting 9 to 6, the justices of the Supreme court upheld the right of former NEDA Chief Romulo Neri to invoke executive privilege in refusing to further testify before the Senate. The decision in the case of “Romulo Neri vs. Senate Committee on Accountability of Public Officers and Investigations, Senate Committee on Trade and Commerce, and Senate Committee on National Defense and Security” was penned by Justice Teresita J. Leonardo de Castro, and concurred in by Justices Quisumbing, Corona, Tinga, Nazario, Velasco, Nachura, Reyes and the newly-appointed Justice Arturo Brion. All of the concurring justices, except for Justice Leo Quisumbing, are appointees of President Arroyo. [...] [...] Voting 9 to 6, the justices of the Supreme court upheld the right of former NEDA Chief Romulo Neri to invoke executive privilege in refusing to further testify before the Senate. The decision in the case of “Romulo Neri vs. Senate Committee on Accountability of Public Officers and Investigations, Senate Committee on Trade and Commerce, and Senate Committee on National Defense and Security” was penned by Justice Teresita J. Leonardo de Castro, and concurred in by Justices Quisumbing, Corona, Tinga, Nazario, Velasco, Nachura, Reyes and the newly-appointed Justice Arturo Brion. All of the concurring justices, except for Justice Leo Quisumbing, are appointees of President Arroyo. [...]

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