IRR’s the key: Guevarra insists nothing vague about Anti-Terror Law

There is nothing vague about the Anti-Terrorism Law, assured Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Menardo Guevarra.

“The vagueness in the provisions of the law have been somehow remedied,” he said during the recent Laging Handa presser.

Guevarra pointed this out now that the Supreme Court (SC) has already started the oral arguments over the 37 petitions seeking to declare as unconstitutional the Anti-Terrorism Law.

The secretary explained that this has already been solved with the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) that was crafted by the DOJ.

“So we’ll leave it to the Supreme Court to resolve whether the alleged vagueness has actually being remedied by the implementing rules and regulations,” he said.

Aside from this, Guevarra said the petitioners will also have to convince the SC if the was ripe for the petitions to be filed before the high tribunal.

“I understand that much of the discussion focused on certain preliminary or procedural matters such as, for example, the matter of judicial hierarchy appropriate for the petitioners to file their petition immediately or directly with the Supreme Court rather than filing their petitions with courts with concurrent jurisdictions like the Court of Appeals and the Regional Trial Court,” he noted.

The SC will hold continue with the oral arguments this Feb. 9 following the first held last Feb. 2.

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