LEGAL NOTES

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Rep. Kaka J. Bag-ao finished her Juris Doctor degree at the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law in 1993. Before being elected into Congress, she was the Convenor of the Alternative Law Groups (ALG), a network of non-government organizations providing legal support to marginalized communities. She was the lead counsel of the Sumilao farmers, who successfully fought for their right to land through a campaign supported by many sectors. Rep. Bag-ao was also one of the public prosecutors in the impeachment trial of former Chief Justice Renato Corona. 

LAND USE

• Extracting good policy from bad legislation: A review of Executive Order No. 79, Series of 2012

AGRARIAN REFORM

• Queries on CARPER beyond 2014

• Void or valid?: The legal acrobatics of the Supreme Court decision in Hacienda Luisita

• HLI must subscribe to the tenets of social justice and distribute the land to the farmers

REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

• HB 13, or the so-called Right to Life of the Unborn Child Bill, is not pro-life

• Reproductive Health Bill: A pro-life bill

• Can and should the government teach sex education?

LABOR RIGHTS

• Upholding the rule of law or the rule of men? (On the SC recall of its FASAP decision)

ACCOUNTABILITY OF PUBLIC OFFICIALS

• Simplifying the Senate Rules on impeachment trials  

• Supreme Court Chief Justice Corona betrayed the trust reposed in him by the Filipino people

• Making sacred cows accountable: Impeachment as the most formidable weapon in the arsenal of democracy 

• Legal implications of continuing with the impeachment proceedings for the House of Representatives

• Impeaching Merceditas: Status unknown

• Impeaching Ombudsman Gutierrez in the 15th Congress

PEACE IN MINDANAO

• The Historical Injustices Against the Filipino Moros and the Draft Bangsamoro Basic Law as Impetus for Rectification and Peace

Watch the ALG documentary entitled "Abogado ng Bayan" (2008) produced and directed by Ditsi Carolino. It features Rep. Bag-ao and several of her colleagues in their work as alternative lawyers handling cases of marginalized groups.

Part 1 ▪ Part 2 ▪ Part 3 ▪ Part 4