Tinig ng Marino – September – October 2014 ATTY. AUGUSTO R. BUNDANG Head, Litigation and Seafarers Department Sapalo Velez Bundang and Bulilan Law Offices Who has jurisdiction over a case involving the interpretation or implementation of the collective bargaining agreement: the labor arbiter or the voluntary arbitrator? The recent case of “Estate of Nelson…
Tinig ng Marino – July -August 2014 ATTY. AUGUSTO R. BUNDANG Head, Litigation and Seafarers Department Sapalo Velez Bundang and Bulilan Law Offices Is the injury suffered by the seafarer the result of an “accident” thereby entitling him to higher disability benefits under the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA)? This is the question posed in…
April 8, 2012 CodeRed FAITH AND REASON By: Atty. Tito R. Bundang The website of the National Center for Victims of Crime, a nonprofit organization in the U.S. which advocates for victims’ rights, defines ‘domestic violence’ as that which constitutes willful intimidation, assault, battery, sexual assault or other abusive behavior perpetrated by one family…
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…