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Criminal Code Committee Starts Work on Book 2 of Revised Penal Code
The Criminal Code Committee (CCC) of the Department of Justice (DOJ)
recently reported that work has begun on the drafting of Book 2 of the
new criminal Code, a priority project of the current administration to
simplify, codify and rationalize the set of more than 400 criminal laws.
The Code Committee previously completed the roadshow consultations on Book 1 governing general principles.
The highlights of Book 1 includes the change to universal jurisdiction
of crimes instead of the current jurisdiction based on territory;
simplifies the approach to criminalization based on conduct and not
mental state; there is no longer a splitting of criminal and civil
actions; provision on a new scale of penalties; the rule on double
jeopardy has been rationalized to prevent abuses; and prescription of
crime and service of sentence is now combined.
For Book 2, it will be composed of three main parts instead of the
current fifteen titles. These are - crimes against property; - crimes
against persons; and crimes against the State.
Justice Secretary Leila M. de Lima formed the CCC in April 2011,
following the directive of President Benigno S. Aquino III during his
first State of the Nation Address to recodify the country's laws to
ensure their consistency.
The Code Committee is composed of representatives from more than 20
government agencies and private organizations spanning the executive,
legislative, and judicial branches of government, the professional
associations of lawyers, and the civil society.
Its work is organized through regular expert group meetings, focused
group discussions, presentations and special lectures, writeshops
including submission of policy papers when needed. Among these are
Determining the Appropriate Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility
(MACR) in the Philippines; Corporate Criminal Responsibility in the
Philippines; Penalties under the New Criminal Code of the Philippines;
and Amicable Settlement in Criminal Cases in the Philippines.
Since 2011, the CCC conducted forty-two (42) experts group meetings
that involved representatives from the Office of the Ombudsman, Civil
Service Commission (CSC), Commission on Election (COMELEC), Commission
on Audit (COA), and Commission on Human Rights (CHR).
By the end of 2013, the CCC said that it would be ready to submit the draft of Book 2.
Meanwhile, draft Book 1 With 24 sections, was completed in October 2012
and is currently undergoing final edits in preparation for filing in
the 16th Congress of the Philippines.
Recently, the DOJ signed a Framework Agreement with the Max Planck
Institute (MBI) for Foreign and International Criminal Law based in
Freiburg, Germany to conduct legal research and comparative law
analysis.
The Hanns Seidel Foundation is the partner institution of the DOJ Criminal Code Committee.
DOJ Website
http://www.doj.gov.ph/
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Criminal Code Committee Starts Work on Book 2 of Revised Penal Code
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