The camp of ousted Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno has accused the Supreme Court (SC) of “overlooking” the fact that Sereno had already submitted her Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALNs). He said that the high court could not disregard the fact that Sereno had filed all her SALNs while she was a law professor at the University of the Philippines (UP). ADVERTISEMENT“The SC cannot just ignore the fact that CJ Sereno had actually filed her UP SALNs,” Cruz said in a statement. (The decisions of the SC consistently show that no one has been ousted due to their non-submission of SALN. Citing the motion for reconsideration that Sereno recently filed before the SC, Cruz said that Sereno argued that “her repeated filing of her SALNs shows that her ‘intent, plan and habit as a UP professor was to religiously file her SALNs.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer June 03, 2018 07:14 UTC