High court ‘flip-flopped’ on UP land case

PRIVATE claimants to a 77-hectare property in Quezon City criticized two former chiefs justice who allegedly “flip-flopped” on their rulings over the dispute, stressing that the tribunal should reopen the case and “rectify” such error.

The heirs of Jorge Chin and Renato Mallari, through their counsel, Melanio Mauricio, said former chiefs justice Reynato Puno and Hilario Davide Jr. have to explain their sudden turnaround from two previous decisions of the SC First Division that upheld their ownership of the property, a portion of which is where the Ayala Techno Park along Commonwealth Avenue now sits.