“It is clear to us that Justice Peralta wants to wash his hands clean of how Chief Justice Sereno was included in the JBC shortlist and he knows it,” Sereno’s spokesperson Jojo Lacanilao said on Monday. But Lacanilao said Sereno submitted three SALNs since her appointment as SC Associate Justice in 2010. He was the one who signed the endorsement letter to Malacañang containing the list of nominees for the Chief Justice post. Lacanilao sought “delicadeza” from Peralta, who expressed his disappointment to Sereno for excluding his wife, Court of Appeals (CA) Associate Justice Audrey Peralta, from the shortlist of nominees for the CA Presiding Justice. ADVERTISEMENT“Justice Peralta should have some delicadeza in not allowing personal disappointments to color his testimonies before the Justice Committee,” Lacanilao said.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer February 12, 2018 07:07 UTC