The House of Representatives justice committee has batted for the measure overhauling the country's 85-year old Revised Penal Code, renaming penalties, adjusting fines, requiring joint civil and ...

The fines under the old Revised Penal Code, including amendments, ranged from P5 to P100,000. Article continues after this advertisement RA 10951 imposes a maximum P4-million fine for treason ...

For instance, under the Revised Penal Code, a person found guilty of treason would face imprisonment of 12 to 20 years and a fine of up to P20,000 only. The bill raises the fine to P4 million.

The Diet has passed a revision to the penal code to integrate two categories of confinement--“choeki” and “kinko”--into one called “kokin.” ...

“For instance, theft of P1,000 in 1932 should theoretically be punished more heavily than theft of P1,000 today, and the penalties prescribed in the Revised Penal Code reflect this reality,” Belmonte ...

MANILA, Philippines – Senate President Franklin Drilon filed a bill on Friday, March 6, to propose many amendments to the 85-year-old Revised Penal Code (RPC). Senate Bill 2680 seeks to adjust ...

PENALTIES AND fines imposed by the Revised Penal Code (RPC) have been adjusted to current economic standards after President Rodrigo R. Duterte approved amendments to the 85-year-old law. The fresh ...

Under the revised criminal law, penalties of "imprisonment with labor or a jail term without labor for up to one year," and "a fine up to 300,000 yen (about $2,200)" have been added, while the ...

MANILA, Philippines – Penalties for crimes in the Philippines just got heavier with President Rodrigo Duterte signing amendments to the Revised Penal Code or Republic Act No. 10951.

Hilbay added that Congress still considered the current penal scheme as "just." 'Friends' of SC Valentina Santana-Cruz, Senate legal counsel who was invited as an amicus curiae (a friend of the court) ...

The revised Penal Code, which takes effect that day, will make imprisonment fully without penal work. The current system obliges some offenders to engage in such work depending on the sentence.