“Things past redress are now with me past care” – William Shakespeare. THE EMPLOYMENT relation between the manning agency representing the shipping company as the employer, and the seafarer as the employee, may cease not only upon the initiative or the employer based on authorized or just causes but also by reason of the free…
“Arava u mayet an namaes u ryes”, “There is no strong man when the sea is at its worst”, goes the Ivatan proverb. As I traveled around this northernmost part of the Philippine Archipelago last Holyweek, I discovered that what I read about the place is true, if not an understatement. Also known as the…
The Maritime Law Association of the Philippines (MARLAW), in coordination with the Sta.Clara Parish School Alumni Association (SCALA) will hold the Seventh (7th) Badminton Tournament at the Powersmash Badminton Court , Pasong Tamo St, Makati City, on Saturday, April 17, 2016 from 8:00 o’clock in the morning to 5:00 o’clock in the afternoon. Dubbed as…
BY ATTY. DENNIS R. GORECHO An anti-seafarer bill might be refiled by ANGKLA Partylist during the next Congress if it will be reelected in office, a bill that is clearly a mere dilatory tactic to stop the labor/ seafarers from getting what is rightfully due them. With House Bill No. 5430, the…
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Seafarer’s illegal dismissal Panay News – April 5, 2016 BY ATTY. DENNIS R. GORECHO UNDER the Philippine legal system, the reason for one’s termination of employment is as important as the manner it is done. Both the reason and the manner must be appropriate, otherwise the termination itself is gravely defective and may be declared unjustified. Dismissal…
Paralegal lecture on seafarer’s rights, TIP Manila February 26, 2015. Aristotle once said: ”Those that know do. Those that understand, teach”. Our law firm Sapalo Velez Bundang Bulilan ( SVBB) believes that the best way to afford legal protection to seafarers is for them to be properly educated of their legal rights.
February 2, 2012 CODE RED FAITH AND REASON By: Atty. Tito Bundang Whoever said that “an apple a day keeps the doctor away” may have been unaware that it is not only the apple that maintains a person’s health, but the presence of a loving mother who carefully hands the apple and provides him…
July 8, 2011 CodeRed Proposed Column Title: “Fides et Ratio” CUSTODY DISPUTE: CHILD’S BEST INTEREST by: Atty. Tito R. Bundang I sat motionless but perturbed, my heart beating fast, yet I could not take my eyes off the theater screen. The characters in the scene were in a courtroom, husband…
Unreasonable Non-Deployment Will the unreasonable nondeployment of a seafarer entitle him to payment of actual damages? The most recent case of Stolt-Nielsen Transportation Group, Inc. and Chung Gai Ship Management vs. Sulpecio Medequillo, Jr. (G.R. No. 177498, January 18, 2012) confirms the standing rule that a seafarer must indeed be compensated as a result of…