Atty. Manuel J. Laserna Jr.

"After incorporation, one becomes a stockholder of a corporation by subscription or by purchasing stock directly from the corporation o...

"Article 494 of the Civil Code provides that no co-owner shall be obliged to remain in the co-ownership, and that each co-owner may dem...

Ask one fact per question. Avoid long and compounded cross examination questions.  Be simple.  Be direct to the point.  Limit your cross exa...

"The President may generally enter into executive agreements subject to limitations defined by the Constitution and may be in furthera...

"This Court has interpreted the faithful execution clause as an obligation imposed on the President, and not a separate grant of power....

"Nevertheless, this Court finds that there is basis for it to review the act of the Executive for the following reasons. In any case, p...

" The present petitions cannot qualify as citizens', taxpayers', or legislators' suits; the Senate as a body has the requis...

"While petitioners Saguisag  et. al ,do not have legal standing,they nonetheless raise issuesinvolving matters oftranscendental importa...

"Petitioners have shown the presence of an actual case or controversy. The OSG maintains[107] that there is no actual case or controver...

"Even as we are left with no recourse but to bare our power to check an act of a coequal branch of government - in this case the execut...

" The relationship between the  two major presidential functions  and the role of the Senate Clearly, the power to defend the State and...

"The power and duty to conduct foreign relations. The President also carries the mandate of being the sole organ in the conduct of for...

"Petitioner Yabut urges that his preventive suspension of 82 days should be credited to the penalty of 2-month suspension imposed on hi...

" A public official, more especially an elected one, should not be onion skinned. Strict personal discipline is expected of an occupan...