Obiter dictum is a term used in legal parlance. It is the Latin term for 'something said in passing'. What is obiter dictum? Obiter dictum is a term used in legal parlance. It is the Latin term for ...

As the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte’s continues, here are some of the legal terminologies that might have ...

President Duterte will still not cooperate with any investigation that the International Criminal Court (ICC) may launch into the thousands of deaths in his war on drugs, despite a Supreme Court ...

The swadeshi jurisprudence model has ensured that our judicial system is broken and on the point of total collapse ...

Allow me to react to the letter of retired Court of Appeals justice Ricardo Pronove Jr. (“Understanding the DAP ruling,” Opinion, 7/30/14). I totally agree with him that the “offending” statement in ...

While obiter dicta give the opportunity to individual justices to elucidate their personal views or even stress submissions which may have been sidetracked or jettisoned, obiters have the tendency to ...