Leila de Lima

Leila de Lima (2016)

Leila Magistrado de Lima (born August 27, 1959 in Iriga City , Camarines Sur ) is a Filipino lawyer , university professor and politician .

biography

The eldest daughter of the former Commissioner ( Commissioner ) of the Election Commission (COMELEC) Vicente B. de Lima, after attending elementary school and high school at La Consolacion Academy , studied political science from 1976 to 1980 at the University of De La Salle in Manila , where she acquired her degree the Bachelor of Arts History degree . She then completed a law degree at San Beda College , which she completed with a Bachelor of Laws . Shortly afterwards, she graduated from the 1985 bar exam as the eighth best .

In April 1986, she began her career as a tax assistant in the law firm SyCip, Gorres, Velayo & Co., however, has already taken in June 1986. reputation as a Professor of Law at the San Beda College of Law and taught there until 1994 electoral law , business organization, Personal law , family law , traffic law , statute law and introduction to law. At the same time, from July 1989, she was a member of the staff of Isagani A. Cruz, a judge at the Supreme Court of the Philippines.

She then worked as an attorney at the law firm Jardaleza, Sobreviñas, Diaz, Hayudini & Bodegon Law Offices. She then worked as a lawyer at Jardaleza Law Offices between 1991 and 1992.

In 1993, she was assistant in the House of Representatives of the Philippines and was there as Recording Secretary ( Clerk ) of the Electoral Tribunal held until the 1995th In April 1995 she joined the law firm Roco, Buñag, Kapunan & Migallos as a junior partner and subsequently became the founder and managing partner of De Lima & Meñez in July 1998. After almost nine years in this law firm, she became a managing partner of the law firm De Lima Law Firm in April 2007. Between 2006 and 2007 she was again Professor of Law at the San Beda College of Law.

On May 7, 2008, she was of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to the Chairman of the Commission on Human Rights ( Commission on Human Rights appointed), but met with their work often resistance from government officials and judges. In 2009 she was named "Public Service Employee of the Year" by the TV station GMANews.

After the elections in the Philippines in 2010 , Leila de Lima was on June 30, 2010 by President Benigno Aquino III. the justice minister appointed (Secretary of Justice) in the Cabinet.

In the elections in May 2016 , de Lima won one of twelve senatorial seats. In the following period she was one of the sharpest critics of the anti-drug war of the newly elected President Rodrigo Duterte . De Lima set up a committee of inquiry, among other things, because Duterte, as mayor of Davao City, had the city cleaned up by death squads . In February 2017, the Manila Public Prosecutor's Office charged de Lima with involvement in drug deals and for receiving money from the drug cartels for the election campaign. Various witnesses gave information at the Senate hearing about the type of campaign support and the amounts paid. As Minister of Justice under the Aquino government, she is said to have allowed and tolerated parties in the maximum security prison for the bosses of the drug cartels incarcerated there. She had previously been voted out of office by the Senate on allegations of corruption. Most political observers do not believe de Lima's wrongdoing after other unpopular prosecutors, judges, police officers or politicians were confronted with similar allegations and charges. On February 24, 2017, De Lima was arrested in the Senate building of the Philippine capital Manila after Judge Juanita Guerrero, at Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court Branch 204, issued an arrest warrant for De Lima on Thursday evening. When De Lima was arrested, he told the press that she would face the allegations.

See also

• Cabinet Benigno Aquino III.

Web links

• Biography on the homepage of the Commission on Human Rights

Individual evidence

1. ↑ INQUIRER: New CHR chair De Lima sworn in (May 15, 2008) ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Shay Cullen: Human Rights and Democracy. Speech for Weimar , December 10, 2009 ( Memento of July 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ GMANEWS: Leila de Lima: GMANews.TV's Public Servant of the Year (December 31, 2009)
4. ↑ "Philippines: Duterte's sharpest opponent accused | tagesschau.de ". Accessed February 20, 2017. http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/philippinen-duterte-101.html .