{"id":56718,"date":"2015-07-23T17:37:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T09:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=56718"},"modified":"2015-07-23T17:38:55","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T09:38:55","slug":"binay-had-every-right-to-press-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/23\/binay-had-every-right-to-press-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Binay had every right to press charges&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_52994\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52994\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/jojo-jejomar-binay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52994\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/jojo-jejomar-binay-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"Three days after resigning from the Aquino Cabinet, Vice President Jejomar Binay officially declared himself as head of the opposition in the 2016 national and local elections during a press conference on Wednesday (June 24, 2015) at his office in the Coconut Palace, Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Complex, Pasay City. (Avito C. Dalan \/ PNA)\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/jojo-jejomar-binay-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/jojo-jejomar-binay-1024x747.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52994\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three days after resigning from the Aquino Cabinet, Vice President Jejomar Binay officially declared himself as head of the opposition in the 2016 national and local elections during a press conference on Wednesday (June 24, 2015) at his office in the Coconut Palace, Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Complex, Pasay City. (Avito C. Dalan \/ PNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Vice President Jejomar Binay had every right to press charges, according to Amado Valdez, former University of the East law dean.<\/p>\n<p>Valdez made the statement in an interview with reporters following Binay&#8217;s filing of a\u00a0P200-million damage suit against several officials and the Philippine Daily Inquirer.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with reporters, Valdez said that Binay had the right to file charges.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is an inherent right of every individual to seek redress and damages. Sometimes offense is the best defense,\u201d Valdez told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>He added that it &#8220;levels the playing field&#8221; between Binay and those accusing him of graft and corruption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The damage suit] will bring the allegations [raised by Binay critics] within the judicial scrutiny according to rules of evidence. What is hearsay will be separated from admissible evidence,\u201d he\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>Binay earlier filed a case against several officials for what he described as a &#8220;well organized and orchestrated effort&#8221; to destroy his reputation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This shameful exercise is prohibited by law, particularly under Articles 19, 20 and 21 (human relations), 32 (constitutional rights), 33 (civil aspect of libel) and 2176 (quasi-delict) of the Civil Code,&#8221; Binay said.<\/p>\n<p>Other defendants in the case are\u00a0Bangko Sentral governor Amando M. Tetangco Jr. chairman of AMLC, and the council members: insurance commissioner Emmanuel F. Dooc, SEC chair Teresita J. Herbosa, and AMLC executive director Julia C. Abad,\u00a0Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales, Caloocan City Rep. Eric Erice, Atty. Renato Bondal, Engr. Mario Hechanova, AMLC officials and the\u00a0Philippine Daily Inquirer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Vice President Jejomar Binay had every right to press charges, according to Amado Valdez, former University of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":52994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56718","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=56718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}