Personal details about magistrates of the Supreme Court (SC) cannot be made public, thus their omission from the justices’ individual Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN), according to Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno.
“We would rather not always publish the, for example, details about our address, children, etc., those things are not really... as a public servant there are things you want to keep as much as possible but we agreed we would show the people our net worth, our assets and liabilities, so that they can already see whether at the start we can already be trusted,” Sereno said on Friday during a program celebrating the Philippines’ 117th Independence Day at the Bonifacio Monument in Caloocan City (Metro Manila).
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