Raising Quality of Service to Clients: OSG’s Docket Management Service is ISO Certified

The Office of the Solicitor General’s Docket Management Service (DMS), which serves as the “nerve center” of the OSG’s operations, recently passed the ISO 9001:2008 certification audit conducted by the Anglo-Japanese-American (AJA) Registrars. AJA auditors, headed by Captain Graham James Botterill and accompanied by James Lee Creasey, brought the good news for the Office. This means that the system of the OSG Docket complies with internationally-accepted quality management system standards. The OSG is one of the first government agencies to comply with Executive Order No. 605 issued by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in February 2007 mandating the institutionalization of ISO 9001:2000 certification on all government agencies.

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.

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.

 

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Sandiganbayan forfeits Marcos’ Arelma assets in favor of the Republic

 

            In a big boost to the Republic’s claim to recover the Marcos ill-gotten wealth, the Sandiganbayan forfeited US$3,369,975.00 of the Marcos’ Arelma in favor of the Republic.

 

            The existence of the Arelma assets was discovered among the Malacanang documents in 1986 after the Edsa Revolution that ousted the Marcoses. Said documents included a letter dated 21 September 1972 by J. L. Sunier, Senior Vice President of SBC to Jose Y. Campos, with instructions to form Arelma, Inc. in Panama for the sole purpose of maintaining an account and portfolio in Meryll Lynch, New York. On 19 May 1983, Sunier estimated that the value of the assets amounted to US$3,369,975.00.

 

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CA denied contempt raps against the military

 

The Court of Appeals (CA) denied the motion to cite in contempt the military officials who are respondents to a petition for a writ of amparo filed by the families of the two missing University of the Philippines students, Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeño.  Cadapan and Empeño were allegedly abducted by soldiers in June 2006 in Hagonoy, Bulacan.

 

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De Venecia loses plea of Writ of Habeas Data

Last 02 March 2009, the Court of Appeals (CA) denied businessman Jose “Joey” de Venecia III’s petition for the issuance of a writ of habeas data, which sought to stop military and police authorities from allegedly conducting surveillance and wiretapping activities against him.

 

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