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You may opt not to receive cookies by not accepting them or disabling them in your web browser configuration. Our website may contain links to third party websites that may also use cookies. Some of her reforms included the reopening of a decentralization office, but one that was blocked for alleged transgressions on Sereno's part. De Castro had questioned why Sereno removed the office from under the supervision of Court Administrator Midas Marquez.
The House hearings would reveal that Marquez was sidelined in some of Sereno's other reforms, including survivorship benefits. One court insider commented that Sereno could have worked harder on getting the trust and confidence of Marquez, said to be influential inside the Court.
Another reform is the Enterprise Information Systems Plan EISP , a multi-billion-peso digitization project that aims to make the Court fully electronic, delivering faster services to the people.
This is what Sereno is most proud of: "You cannot find a more dramatic set of reforms as that of the judiciary.
It would have been a good story, I would have told the nation to be confident in ourselves, be confident in what the Filipinos can do. We can correct the system that you have decried as unjust. But again, inside, it was a different story.
She hired consultant Helen Macasaet to oversee the project, paying her a total of P11 million for 4 years' worth of contracts. In March , when the impeachment proceedings against Sereno were discussing the EISP and possible irregularities in procurement, Garay resigned. Sereno directly linked President Rodrigo Duterte to the ouster move against her.
But it did not end. Clear as day," Sereno said, adding that there were even offers to meet with the President to solve the problem. Duterte had marked Sereno as his enemy. It started when Sereno spoke out against putting judges in the President's narco-list , against extrajudicial killings , and against martial law. But Court insiders and observers would say that Sereno was never in the way of Duterte, as far as key Supreme Court decisions were concerned.
Sereno had always lost, sometimes overwhelmingly, and issues that were of interest to Duterte had always prevailed: Ferdinand Marcos' hero's burial, martial law in Mindanao, the continued detention of staunch administration critic Leila de Lima. Sereno's rise to the top justice post was extraordinary, except to her peers who never appeared to accept her. It didn't seem that Sereno was interested in winning them over either, as she said in an earlier interview : "There are only a limited number of things we can do to address the emotions of others.
Largely how you deal with your emotions is your personal accountability. Anti-Sereno protesters also gathered outside the building. It argued she lacked integrity for allegedly failing 10 times to file annual statements of assets and liabilities. This decision is wrong. Published On 11 May
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