Amicus Curiae

Republic Act No. 11659 or RA 11659, which amended Commonwealth Act No. 146 or the Public Service Act, was signed into law by President Duterte on 21 March 2021 and took effect 15 days after its publication in a newspaper of general circulation.

What used to be a slow trend towards digitalization rapidly accelerated as a result of the coronavirus outbreak.

Social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok, play a vital role in the dissemination of information, as well as in the discourse of opinions among Filipinos.

Fair use is a privilege to use copyrighted material in a reasonable manner without the consent of the copyright owner or copying a theme or idea rather than their expression.

In view of increased vaccination rates and the ardent desire to reopen the economy, the Philippine government has updated the guidelines on entry, testing, and quarantine protocols of
foreign nationals.

Among the six kinds of employment (including probationary), it is probably in project employment where divergence in views, and even in decisions of the Supreme Court, is more than apparent.

Based on the latest Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) regulatory restrictiveness index of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Philippines obtained a score of 0.374 on a scale of 0 (open) to 1 (closed). In terms of ranking, the Philippines has the third most restrictive FDI rules out of 83 countries included in the OECD’s study.

It has been about two years since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out. Just when it appeared that we were about to reach our desired destination of a COVID-free Philippines, the situation seemingly became worse than ever.

It is a common work set-up that employees, either in private establishment or government, are issued employer-owned computers or mobile devices in the conduct of their work.

Section 35 of Republic Act No. 10667, otherwise known as the Philippine Competition Act (“PCA”), provides that the Philippine Competition Commission (“PCC”) shall develop a Leniency Program (‘Program”) for a participant in an anti-competitive agreement as provided in Section 14(a) and 14(b) of the PCA.