In the case of Bases Conversion and Development Authority vs. CJH Development Corporation, et al., G.R. No. 219421, April 3, 2024, the Supreme Court upheld the RTC’s confirmation of the Final Arbitral Award of the tribunal in an arbitration case between the BCDA and CJH DevCo.

To recall, on February 11, 2015, the arbitral tribunal rendered its Final Award ruling that a mutual rescission of the agreements was warranted. As consequence thereof, the arbitral tribunal ordered a mutual restitution on account of breach of obligations from both parties. The parties were reverted as far as practicable to their original position prior to the execution of the original lease agreement. The dispositive portion of the Final Award.

The Municipal and Metropolitan Trial Courts have original and exclusive jurisdiction over all cases of inclusion and exclusion of voters in their respective cities or municipalities.
The process of voters’ inclusion/exclusion, as part of the voters’ registration process is provided and defined under the Omnibus Election Code, as amended by Republic Act No. 8189 otherwise known as the Voter’s Registration Act of 1996.

The Constitution entrusted the Court with the solemn duty to administer the entry to the legal profession. Keeping true to its nature as a court of justice and equity, the Court implemented vital reforms from 2020/2021 to 2024 which are meant to make the Bar Examinations more efficient, technologically-adaptive, and accessible to all examinees in line with the Court’s Strategic Plan for Judicial Innovations 2022-2027. Following this thrust, the 2025 Bar Examinations shall continue to implement the vital reforms introduced during the last four Bar Examinations. Thus, the 2025 Bar Examinations shall remain digitalized and localized following a condensed three-day examination schedule.

Contract substitution or alteration is an act of illegal recruitment. Section 6(i) of the Republic Act No. 8042, as amended, or the Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995 provides that to substitute or alter employment contracts approved and verified by the Department of Labor and Employment from the time of actual signing thereof by the parties up to and including the period of the expiration of the same without the approval of the Department of Labor and Employment is an act of illegal recruitment.

The Head of the Procuring Entity (HoPE), subject to the authority delegated to the Bids and Awards Commission (BAC), if any, shall impose the penalty of suspension for one (1) year for the first offense, and suspension of two (2) years for the second offense, for any of the following offenses:

According to the case of PEPSI-COLA PRODUCTS PHILIPPINES, INC. vs. ANECITO MOLON G.R. No. 175002, February 18, 2013, unfair labor practice (ULP) refers to acts that violate the workers’ right to organize. The prohibited acts are related to the workers’ right to self-organization and to the observance of a CBA. Without that element, the acts, no matter how unfair, are not unfair labor practices.

A contract to sell may not be considered as a conditional contract of sale where the seller may likewise reserve title to the property subject of the sale until the fulfillment of a suspensive condition, because in a conditional contract of sale, the first element of consent is present, although it is conditioned upon the happening of a contingent event which may or may not occur. (Ace Foods, Inc., v. Micro Pacific Technologies Co. LTD, G.R. No. 200602, December 11, 2013)

Article 1378 of the Labor Code of the Philippines provides that in cases of doubt in the interpretation of onerous contracts, the interpretation should be made in a way that is fair for the parties involved. In this case, the seller was allowed to retain partial payments as just compensation for the buyer’s use of the property even after the contract has been cancelled.

In the above-entitled case, the Supreme Court discussed the elements of an implied new lease under Article 1670 of the New Civil Code of the Philippines, to wit:

(a) the term of the original contract of lease has expired;
(b) the lessor has not given the lessee a notice to vacate; and
(c) the lessee continued enjoying the thing leased for 15 days with the acquiescence of the lessor.