8 Things you never knew about Sereno that you should know ~Share

In 2012, then President B.S. Aquino appointed Lourdes Sereno to head the Supreme Court and in an article written by Rigoberto D. Tiglao of the Manila Times on December 1, 2017, he wrote that Sereno is a mediocre legal academic and had never even seen the insides of a Philippine courtroom.

Tiglao also said that Lourdes doesn’t have the qualifications to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court or even associate justice – or even judge of a municipal trial court.

Rigoberto D. Tiglao has a mouthful to say about Serono and written below are just a few of what he has to say.

1. Sereno has a penchant for trampling to the ground the rules and procedures of the high court, for acting as a despot and refusing to consult with her colleagues and lying through her teeth to them.
   
2. Sereno quarreled with her colleagues. She ignored them in the administration of the justice system. 
   
3. She ordered for her personal use, without court approval, a bullet-proof Toyota Land Cruiser worth P8 million.
   
4. Sereno falsified court documents to cover up orders she alone made.
   
   
   
   
5. Sereno traveled first-class and stayed in five-star hotels, charged to the court, against government rules.
   
6. She also shamelessly asked Muntinlupa judges not to issue arrest warrants against former justice secretary and suspected drug-coddler Sen. Leila de Lima.
   
7. Sereno's sole claim to being a successful lawyer was when her mentor, the 77-year-old retired Justice Florentino Feliciano took her in as his legal researcher in the NAIA Terminal 3 case brought against the Republic by the German contractor Fraport before the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes.
   
   
   
   For that, she earned a whopping P37 million in fees, an astronomical amount, which constituted the biggest earnings of her entire career that she admitted allowed her to buy her house and several cars.
   
   Those fees, paid by us taxpayers, were ruled to have been “excessive and illegal” by the Mandaluyong regional trial court.
   
8. Sereno didn’t declare that P37 million income in her statement of assets, liabilities, and net worth (SALN). That allegation has been bolstered by the report of the University of the Philippines to which she should have submitted her SALNs that it anomalously doesn’t have these documents which should have contained her declarations of her P37 million earnings.

From the way it looks, it seems that there is truth in the adage that "karma is a bitch".