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The president of the Supreme Court, Diosdado Peralta, assured this Friday that the petitions against the Antiterrorist Law will soon be resolved.
Peralta said the Supreme Court is currently in the process of collecting common and rare petitions before submitting them to oral argument, and that common issues will be represented by a single attorney.
He noted that the number of petitions, which now stands at 37, cannot be left as is during oral argument, otherwise it would take some time for the higher court to rule.
“One of our problems in oral argumentation if there are 37 requests and everyone would like to argue their respective requests, where will we place them? And then the Attorney General’s Office will bring all its assistants to assist it when we take them to an oral argument, “he said, hence the decision to first determine common issues.
“We will group the problems in common and then we will list the problems that are not against because now there are 37 requests. We think at all times that there would be only five petitions, so we hope that they will be presented in order to establish oral arguments, “he added, highlighting that oral argument would be ordered.
In addition, the chief magistrate said they have already asked the judge in charge of the case to be ready with a list of common problems and rare problems.
“I hope that by November 3, when we come back to the session, the member in charge has already referred to that, and I hope that then it is finished at that time,” said Peralta.
After that is resolved, he said, hoping that in mid-November “we can already agree on the date of the oral argument.”
According to the Chief Justice, the Supreme Court is actually moving fast due to the number of petitions, without ruling out the possibility of additional petitions being filed.
“But we will solve that problem in due time,” Peralta said.
The Antiterrorist Law was promulgated by President Rodrigo Duterte on July 3 and entered into force on July 19. The government has recently published the rules and regulations for the application of the law.
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