WATCH: Can the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Diosdado Peralta do a repeat of 2007 when the High Tribunal did judicial activism to address killings and disappearances under former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo? Read:
"It's qualitatively and quantitatively worse," National Union of Peoples' Lawyers president Edre Olalia said, comparing Duterte's human rights record with Arroyo's.in the time of Duterte, with straight losses of activists due to procedural lapses.In 2016, former chief justice Maria Lourdes Sereno was actually on the verge of doing a repeat of the 2007 activist court, when she created a technical working group on human rights.
Sereno wanted this TWG to assess whether existing rules were sufficient to address current human rights problems. This was in March 2016, before Duterte, but Sereno pointed to this committee in 2017 when she was asked"The problem is we have a Constitution that places the judiciary at the end of the process...
"I will look into it if there's a need to reorganize it, if there is a need to change the members, or require them to start having meetings pertaining to human rights," said the chief justice.
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