Breathing Space

Another brewing issue that is bound to elicit a debate on press freedom interests is a declaration by the Executive Department, through Pres...

Every journalist must have a working familiarity with the landmark ruling Branzburg versus Hayes, decided by the United States Supreme Court...

I remember my former professor Fr. Joaquin Bernas write that the proscription against prior restraint is not all there is to press freedom. ...

It was the editorial published in the defunct Manila Post on June 4, 1946 that sparked the move to enact a shield law in the Philippines to ...

It can be noted, curiously, that the proposed shield law first introduced in the Senate proceeded from the concept of "privileged com...

I found it interesting to dig into the history of the Philippine Shield Law. Today I made some research, to find out how the Philippine Shie...

The Shield Law draws support from several provisions of the constitution. The Shield Law promotes the constitutional guarantees to freedom o...

The Philippine Shield Law seems to imply that the protection to newsmen from compelled revelations pertains only to the source of informatio...

Journalists can resist a subpoena. In Philippine law, the shield law still has to evolve. We do have a shield law, but it is seldom used. If...

One of the annoying processes that a newsman would have to encounter in the exercise of his profession is the process called subpoena. I hav...

What are the elements of our Shield Law? First, what does the law protect? The shield law protects agasint compelled revelations. Compelled ...

Yes, the Philippines has a shield law for journalists. It is embodied in Republic Act No. 1477, an amendatory law. But the first shield law ...