{"id":54801,"date":"2015-07-08T20:09:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T12:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=54801"},"modified":"2015-07-08T20:09:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T12:09:12","slug":"ca-justice-in-binays-suspension-case-anew-inhibits-for-impartiality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/08\/ca-justice-in-binays-suspension-case-anew-inhibits-for-impartiality\/","title":{"rendered":"CA justice in Binay\u2019s suspension case anew inhibits for \u2018impartiality\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_54812\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54812\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Ca22jf-e1436357213485.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-54812\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Ca22jf-e1436357213485-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Court of Appeals (Wikipedia photo)\" width=\"604\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Ca22jf-e1436357213485-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Ca22jf-e1436357213485-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54812\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Court of Appeals (Wikipedia photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Associate Justice Celia Librea-Leagogo, who was supposedly among the magistrates selected to handle Makati Mayor Jejomar Erwin \u201cJunjun\u201d Binay\u2019s second preventive suspension case, inhibited for \u2018impartiality\u2019 in the Court of Appeals\u2019 (CA) ruling in the said case.<\/p>\n<p>In her letter to the CA, Leagogo mentioned that one of her husband Atty. Joey Leagogo\u2019s law partners was a cousin of Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Manuel \u201cMar\u201d Roxas II.<\/p>\n<p>Roxas, who was accused for the demolition job against Vice President Jejomar \u201cJojo\u201d Binay, was one of the respondents in Mayor Binay\u2019s appeal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was recently brought to my attention that the Secretary of respondent Department of the Interior and Local Government, who was directed to implement the Ombudsman\u2019s joint order in the above-captioned case, is the first cousin of one of the co-partners of my husband in their law firm,\u201d Leagogo said in her letter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am voluntarily inhibiting myself from participating in this case, in the interest of impartiality in the proper discharge of my judicial office,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Associate Justice Priscilla Baltazar Padilla has then replaced Leagogo in the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Associate Justice Celia Librea-Leagogo, who was supposedly among the magistrates selected to handle Makati Mayor Jejomar Erwin \u201cJunjun\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":54812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-54801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-rewrite","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54801","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}