The Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) has waived its Statements of Assets, Liabilities, and Net Worth (SALN) requirement in 2012 for certain aspirants to the Chief Justice post. “The submission of all SALNs for those in government was a requirement which the JBC (Judicial and Bar Council) can waive and it waived not only for Sereno but also for 13 other applicants who had failed to submit their complete SALNs to the JBC,” the Sereno camp said in a statement. The same statement mentioned that there are 13 other aspirants to the Chief Justice position who failed to submit the required number of SALNs. “Except for the two Deans (Pangalangan and Valdez) all the others were shortlisted together with Sereno,” the statement said. The camp of the Chief Justice further reiterated that the non-filling of SALNs was not included in lawyer Lorenzo Gadon’s impeachment complaint against Sereno.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer March 20, 2018 01:25 UTC