00:00another member of a well-known political family will have to face a legal battle to remain a lawyer
00:05this after a human rights group and surviving relatives of alleged victims of extrajudicial
00:10killings filed a disbarment case against former president rodrigo duterte luis erispe has the full
00:17report former president rodrigo duterte's license as a lawyer may possibly be revoked after the kin
00:25of the alleged ejk victims human rights groups and lawyers filed a disbarment case against him
00:32before the supreme court the petitioners argued former president duterte has been violating the
00:38code of professional responsibility and accountability or cpra of lawyers since he
00:44was seated as the president
01:14foreign
01:25the family of ejk victims also insisted that instead of using the law to protect the people
01:31his command to the police during the war on drugs was a representation of his violations against it
01:44foreign
01:50foreign
02:11the group implied they initiated the filing of the petition upon hearing that duterte will stand
02:16as the legal counsel of his daughter vice president sara duterte's impeachment case
02:21foreign
02:46foreign included in the disbarment case is their prayer for duterte's suspension of license as a
03:01lawyer while the case is still undecided this is the first disbarment case against the former
03:06president but duterte's camp did not even flinch and said in their perspective there is no legal
03:13basis behind the case duterte's legal counsel and former presidential spokesperson attorney
03:18salvador panela said duterte is not even considered as a criminal yet and that he did not even admit
03:25to any of the ejk crimes they believe the case will not even take a stand on the court
03:31louisa erispe from the national tv for a new and better philippines
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