MANILA, Philippines - Senate President Franklin Drilon has introduced several amendments to the 85-year-old Revised Penal Code to make it more relevant to the present situation and help address the ...

President Duterte has signed the law that increases the outdated amounts in the Revised Penal Code on which fines and penalties are based, thus ensuring more proportional punishment for those who ...

“The defense of a state of necessity is a justifying circumstance. It is an affirmative defense that must be proved by the ...

MANILA, Philippines – Senate President Franklin Drilon filed a bill on Friday, March 6, to propose many amendments to the 85-year-old Revised Penal Code (RPC). Senate Bill 2680 seeks to adjust the ...

At least 50,000 indigent prisoners convicted of petty crimes may either be released or benefit from reduced sentences once amendments to the Revised Penal Code proposed by Senate President Pro-Tempore ...

MANILA, Philippines - Congress will be asked to replace the 79-year-old Revised Penal Code (RPC) with a completely new criminal code. Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said a criminal code committee ...

The Diet has passed a revision to the penal code to integrate two categories of confinement--“choeki” and “kinko”--into one called “kokin.” The revision has scrapped the traditional classification ...

Mon, March 4, 2019 Published on Mar. 4, 2019 Published on 2019-03-04T10:05:37+07:00 he draft of the revised Criminal Code (KUHP) remains unfinished nearing the end of the 2014-2019 legislative term.

Seeking to make the country’s criminal code more "simplified and responsive," Iloilo Rep. Niel Tupas Jr. on Tuesday presented House Bill 2300 or Book One of the Revised Penal Code (RPC). Other than ...