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49 Ateneo L.J. 2 (2004-2005)

handle is hein.journals/ateno49 and id is 1 raw text is: No. 8353. The second is in the nature of a legislative review that gauges the efficacy and repercussions of the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003. Very engaging case comments also form part of this issue including a (i) critique the case of Mike Velarde v. SocialJustice Society, and proposes to have a judicial definition of religion, to answer the question of whether the act of a religious leader in endorsing the candidacy or urging or requiring the members of his flock to vote for a specified candidate, violates the Constitution? (2) re-evaluation of the concepts of administrative exhaustion of remedies and independence of the COMELEC, as re-defined by the concept of transcendental cause in the nullification of the Automated Eledtion Contract awarded by the Conunission on Elections to the Mega- Pacific Consortium; (3) analysis of the implications of the ruling on the citizenship of Fernando Poe, Jr. on paternity and filiation and the quantum of evidence necessary to prove the same; (4) examination of the freedom of a contracting party to stipulate interest rates in relation to the power granted to the courts by the Civil Code to reduce the same as a means of ensuring equity (5) proposal that the theory behind the Battered Woman Syndrome, as exhaustively discussed in People v. Genosa should expand the meaning of unlawful aggression in self-defense; and the observation of the legislative trend that seems to support such argument; (6) closer analysis of Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. General Foods Corporation as it clarifies the terms ordinary and necessary expenses in Income Taxation; and (7) discussion of the theory of money perspective as an alternative framework to complete the legal definition of the term negotiability under the Negotiable Instruments Law. The wide-ranging topies and their scholarly in-depth discussion makes this issue a must read for all lawyers add students of the law. Once again, the Ateneo Law Journal has come out with a worthy contribution to the growing collection of legal literature in the country. City of Manila, 22 September 2004. HON. MA. AM'A AUSTJA-viKRTINEZ AssociateJustice Supreme Court of the Philippines Digitized from Best Copy Available

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