Do you agree to that?” De Castro asked Sereno during the open court debate held at the Supreme Court session hall in Baguio City. ADVERTISEMENT“I maintain that I have consistently filed my SALNs,” Sereno told her fellow magistrates, 13 of whom had forced her to take an indefinite leave since March 1. Not like CoronaADVERTISEMENTActing Chief Justice Antonio Carpio, who presided over the proceedings as the most senior justice after Sereno, had to intervene twice to remind the Chief Justice to let De Castro finish her questions and to limit her answers to De Castro’s queries. Sereno said the efforts to remove her should not be compared to the impeachment of the late Chief Justice Renato Corona, arguing that she had never been accused of corruption like Corona. SALN is not at all mentioned ever in the JBC as an integrity document,” Sereno said.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer April 10, 2018 23:26 UTC