A wider cage where the world can stand still

I TRY to teach my students that a good, or the best, way, to support a legal conclusion is to cite doctrine, case law, jurisprudence, precedents or decided cases. I read that a woman lawyer of the Binays who did just that was chided by the Supreme Court (SC) Chief Justice (CJ), who could have gently told Panyera that it was perhaps time to abandon binding or persuasive but outdated case law for the wisdom of a new day.

I wonder if the Enrile bail ruling could have been an easier sell by stressing that Benigno Aquino, Sr., PNoy’s Lolo, in 1946, got a unanimous Supreme Court bail ruling on health grounds, given Bilibid conditions. Lolo was only 46. Treason was the charge. JPE is going on 92. Plunder.