OSG, PPA scored victory on Batangas Port expropriation case

            With the recent decision of the Supreme Court, the government will about to save close to 13 billion in payment for just compensation to 231 individuals for their over 1.2 million square meters of land expropriated in 2001 to give way to the Batangas Port Zone (BPZ) in Batangas City.

Bar 7th placer joins the OSG

Consistent with its tradition of excellence, the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) once again enlists, on its already decorated roster, another top-caliber lawyer in the person of Atty. Denise S. Dy, 7^th placer in the 2008 Bar Examinations. 

The second daughter of businessman Wilson Dy and Divina Dy, Denise had no particular plans of becoming a lawyer. She obtained her degree in Bachelor of Arts in Political Science at the Ateneo de Manila University, consistently earning honors throughout her study. It is also in the same school where she completed her Juris Doctor degree.  

OSG Legal Internship Program, Only the best for the country and the Filipino people

            It began as a dream. Amidst news of government corruption and perception of government service incompetence and indolence, emerged a vision. A vision to change public perception and at the same time upgrade and rejuvenate the government’s main legal arm to achieve noble purposes, that is, to serve the Filipino people, promote social justice and uphold the rule of law.

            And thus the Office of the Solicitor General’s Legal Internship Program came to life. The year 2008 saw the first batch of law interns, carefully selected under the administration and leadership of Solicitor General Agnes VST Devanadera. The OSG envisioned a program that would provide top law students of the best law schools of the country an experience of government practice. This is with the end that they would eventually decide to take on the challenge of lawyering for the Republic and for the Filipino people.

Justice Secretary Devanadera issues directives to pursue with dispatch court proceedings to forfeit Marcos jewelry

Amid brewing controversies involving former DOJ Secretary Raul Gonzales’ order to release valuable pieces of jewelry to the Marcoses, the incumbent Justice Secretary Agnes VST Devanadera found legal impediment to do so, and, that is, the pendency of a proceeding with the Sandiganbayan where the said jewelry, among other valuable assets, is sought to be forfeited in favor of the Republic.

OSG and PDEA signs MOA

            Last 02 June 2009, the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) signed a Memorandum of Agreement to formalize its partnership towards the fight against the drug menace.  The OSG was represented by Solicitor General Agnes VST Devanadera while the PDEA was represented by Director General Dionisio Santiago.

OSG says, it’s not against audit of 3 big oil companies

            Solicitor General Agnes VST Devanadera addresses comments that the Motion for Reconsideration it filed in relation to the case of the three big oil companies was meant to oppose the public clamor for an audit of the books of these oil companies. According to her, the motion filed by the Office of the Solicitor General merely echoed the positions taken by the government agencies – the Commission on Audit (COA), the Bureau of Customs (BoC) and the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) – being ordered by the trial court to conduct an audit of the oil companies.