{"id":18813,"date":"2014-07-10T22:50:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T14:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=18813"},"modified":"2014-07-10T22:50:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T14:50:16","slug":"probe-on-judiciarys-fund-may-lead-to-repeal-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/10\/probe-on-judiciarys-fund-may-lead-to-repeal-of-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Probe on judiciary&#8217;s fund may lead to repeal of law"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4486\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4486\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Supreme-Court.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4486\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Supreme-Court-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Supreme Court of the Philippines. Photo by Mike Gonzales courtesy of Wiki Commons.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Supreme-Court-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Supreme-Court.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supreme Court of the Philippines. Photo by Mike Gonzales courtesy of Wiki Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; A lawmaker said yesterday that the looming probe on the Judiciary Development Fund (JDF) may lead to the amendment of the law that created it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pork barrel fund was declared unconstitutional (by the Supreme Court) and yet the power to allocate lies with Congress, but this (JDF) is concentrated with the judiciary, and we have not been able to closely monitor its disbursement,\u201d\u00a0Iloilo Rep. Neil Tupas said.<\/p>\n<p>Tupas, chairman of the House justice committee also mentioned that as they investigate the judicial funds, they may have to look into the need to amend or repeal Presidential Decree No. 1949.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are irregularities being reported and complaints as well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that no matter what may come out of the investigation, the SC should abide by it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you amend it, of course, the law will change and everybody should follow. The Supreme Court should follow the law,\u201d Tupas said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; A lawmaker said yesterday that the looming probe on the Judiciary Development Fund (JDF) may lead to the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-ph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18813","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=18813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}