TWO legal victories in the Supreme Court that remain with me to this day involved two vast prime lands of Fort Bonifacio — the Jusmag case (Republic v. Southside Homeowners Association) and the Navy Village case (Navy Officers Village Association v. Republic).
TWO legal victories in the Supreme Court that remain with me to this day involved two vast prime lands of Fort Bonifacio — the Jusmag case and the Navy Village case . When I came upon these cases as the then-newly promoted BCDA general counsel, the Office of the Solicitor General had lost the Jusmag case already from the regional trial court to the Court of Appeals.
Surprisingly, the courts continue to entertain private claims on Fort Bonifacio lands when the SHAI and NOVAI cases should have prevented any private claim on it once and for all. Fort Bonifacio has been a military reservation for more than a century already. It is physically and, more so, legally impossible for any private citizen to have a claim of title over it through open, continuous, exclusive and notorious possession in good faith as an owner.
Plunder Of Our Public Lands And National Patrimony
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