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President Duterte has signed the law that increases the outdated amounts in the Revised Penal Code on which fines and penalties are based, thus ensuring more proportional punishment for those who ...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