More than 100 lawyers on Monday made fresh calls to the Supreme Court to institute reforms in the issuance of search warrants as they expressed concern that these were being misused to attack government critics.
Led by the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL), some 139 counsels asked the high court to “take immediate, concrete and responsive action” amid the killings and arrests of activists in the implementation of search warrants issued by Metro Manila judges.
In their letter, the lawyers proposed a review of the rule allowing executive judges of Manila and Quezon City to issue search warrants for select criminal offenses that could be implemented nationwide.
The lawyers …
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