Binay lawyers oppose consolidation of cases

The Sandiganbayan’s decision to consolidate the cases against former Vice President Jejomar Binay and his son, former Makati Mayor Jejomar Erwin Binay, Jr., contradicts the court’s internal rules and existing jurisprudence, counsels of the former Vice President said.

The court’s Revised Internal Rules explicitly provide that all cases should be raffled and nowhere in the rules does it allow the automatic consolidation of unraffled cases to pending cases before the court, the Subido Pagente, Certeza, Mendoza and Binay (SPCMB) Law Office said.