{"id":185157,"date":"2018-10-11T20:46:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T00:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=185157"},"modified":"2018-10-11T20:46:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T00:46:31","slug":"peralta-bersamin-accept-cj-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/10\/11\/peralta-bersamin-accept-cj-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Peralta, Bersamin accept CJ nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_185158\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-185158\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/peralta-bersamin-sc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-185158\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/peralta-bersamin-sc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-185158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apart from Carpio, Peralta and Bersamin, the other most senior SC justices are Associate Justices Mariano del Castillo and Estela Perlas- Bernabe. (PNA Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Supreme Court (SC) Associate Justices Diosdado Peralta and Lucas Bersamin formally accepted the nomination for the Chief Justice post, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Guevarra, who is also an ex-officio member of the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC), said the two magistrates filed their acceptance of their nomination following the retirement of Chief Justice Teresita Leonardo-de Castro on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio has yet to make a formal acceptance of his nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Carpio earlier said there is &#8220;no legal impediment&#8221; for him to be included on the shortlist but he has yet to send the paperwork confirming his acceptance of his inclusion in the names to be considered.<\/p>\n<p>The five most senior justices of SC are automatically nominated for the Chief Justice vacancy under the rules of the JBC, the seven-member panel tasked to screen nominees for judicial posts.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from Carpio, Peralta and Bersamin, the other most senior SC justices are Associate Justices Mariano del Castillo and Estela Perlas- Bernabe.<\/p>\n<p>Carpio will reach the mandatory retirement age of 70 for the judiciary in October next year.<\/p>\n<p>The Constitution requires associate justices to be a natural-born citizen, at least 40 years old, engaged in the practice for at least 15 years and a person with proven competence, integrity, probity and independence.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte has appointed six justices so far, the latest of whom is Court of Appeals Associate Justice Ramon Paul Hernando.<\/p>\n<p>His other appointees to the High Court are Noel Tijam, Andres Reyes Jr., Alexander Gesmundo, Jose Reyes Jr., and Ombudsman Samuel Martires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Supreme Court (SC) Associate Justices Diosdado Peralta and Lucas Bersamin formally accepted the nomination for the Chief Justice post, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":185158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-benjamin-pulta","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}