{"id":190058,"date":"2018-11-17T04:55:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T09:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=190058"},"modified":"2018-11-17T04:55:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T09:55:21","slug":"jbc-shortlists-ca-magistrates-for-sc-vacancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/11\/17\/jbc-shortlists-ca-magistrates-for-sc-vacancy\/","title":{"rendered":"JBC shortlists CA magistrates for SC vacancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_190059\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190059\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/supreme-court.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-190059\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/supreme-court.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/supreme-court.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/supreme-court-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/supreme-court-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/supreme-court-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-190059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The JBC screens and vets nominees for vacant posts in the judiciary, Offices of the Ombudsman and Deputy Ombudsman before these are submitted to the President. (PTV Photo via PNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA &#8212;<\/strong>\u00a0Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra confirmed on Friday the results of the Judicial and Bar Council&#8217;s (JBC) vote on the shortlist of candidates for the vacant associate justice post at the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Obtaining the highest votes of six each were Court of Appeals (CA) associate justices Manuel Barrios, Japar Dimaampao, Ramon Garcia, Ed De Los Santos, Apolinario Bruselas, and Amy Lazaro-Javier.<\/p>\n<p>CA Associate Justice Rosmari Carandang obtained five votes. The names have been forwarded to Malaca\u00f1ang.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve applicants had filed for the post vacated by Chief Justice Teresita Leonardo-De Castro. Aside from the vacancy left by Maria Lourdes Sereno, there will also be another vacancy next January, when Associate Justice Noel Tijam reaches mandatory retirement age.<\/p>\n<p>There are 20 applicants for the vacancy to be left by Tijam.<\/p>\n<p>The JBC screens and vets nominees for vacant posts in the judiciary, Offices of the Ombudsman and Deputy Ombudsman before these are submitted to the President.<\/p>\n<p>It is chaired by Acting Chief Justice Antonio Carpio, with ex-officio members Senator Richard Gordon, Oriental Mindoro Rep. Salvador Leachon, and Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra.<\/p>\n<p>Retired SC Justice Joe Catral-Mendoza is the head of the Executive Committee, with Milagros Fernan-Cayosa, representing the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP), and retired Judge Toribio Ilao, representing the private sector, as the other regular members of the JBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212;\u00a0Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra confirmed on Friday the results of the Judicial and Bar Council&#8217;s (JBC) vote on the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":190059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190058","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\/190058","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=190058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}