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Salient Features of Domestic Administrative Adoption and Alternative Child Care Act
The Domestic Administrative Adoption and Alternative Child Care Act hereby declared the policy of the State to ensure that every child remains under the care and custody of the parents and be provided with love, care, understanding, and security towards the full and harmonious development of the child’s personality. Only when such efforts prove insufficient and no appropriate placement or adoption within the child’s extended family is available shall adoption by an unrelated person be considered.
Crimes against Humanity
“Crimes against humanity” include any of the following acts committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack: ▪ murder; ▪ extermination; ▪ enslavement;▪ deportation or forcible transfer of population; ▪ imprisonment; ▪ torture; ▪ rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity; ▪ persecution against an identifiable group on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious or gender grounds; ▪ enforced disappearance of persons; ▪ the crime of apartheid; ▪ other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering or serious bodily or mental injury
Doctrine of Qualified Political Agency
Heads of the various executive departments are the alter egos of the President, and, thus, the actions taken by such heads in the performance of their official duties are deemed the acts of the President unless the President himself should disapprove such acts. (Teves v. COA, G.R. No. 242342, March 10, 2020)
Rules of Succession, Vacancy, and Temporary Disability under the 1987 Constitution
The 1987 Constitution provides for rules on succession, vacancy, and temporary disability of the President and Vice-President of the Philippines. These provisions are designed to ensure continuity of leadership and maintain stability in the executive branch.
Duties of Employers in Sexual Harassment Cases
In the Philippines, there were two (2) laws enacted to address sexual harassment. First is Republic Act (RA) 7877 or the Anti-Sexual Harassment Act of 1995, and second is RA No. 11313 or the Safe Spaces Act.The said laws provide for the duties of employers, heads of offices, and even school heads, on how to handle sexual harassment in a work-related, education, or training environment, which would include the creation of a committee on decorum and investigation (CODI) and the imposition of administrative penalties against the perpetrators.
Threefold Liability Rule
Under the “threefold liability rule,” the wrongful acts or omissions of public officers may give rise to civil, criminal and administrative liabilities. Corollarily, public officers could still be held civilly liable to reimburse the injured party notwithstanding their acquittal. (Matobato, Sr. v. People of the Philippines, G.R. No. 229265, February 15, 2022)