PDRCI to present paper at the 5th AMA Conference in Jakarta

PDRCI Assistant Secretary General Francisco D. Pabilla, Jr. will present a paper on “Learning from Experience: Travails of a Court-annexed Mediator” at the 5th Asian Mediation Association (AMA) Conference on October 24 to 25, 2018 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Mr. Pabilla’s paper is one of twenty papers chosen by the AMA conference committee to be presented [...]

DOJ Secretary Guevarra clarifies arbitrability of government construction contracts without arbitration clause

During the open forum at the PDRCI 2018 general membership meeting where he was guest speaker, DOJ Secretar y Menardo I. Guevarra clarified in his reply to a quer y by former Commission and Audit chairman Grace Pulido-Tan that resort to arbitration is deemed written in government construction contracts without any arbitration clause, because this [...]

PDRC pays courtesy visit to Secretary of Justice

PDRC visits Secretary Guevarra: (from left) Francisco Pabilla, Jr., Atty. Patricia-Ann Prodigalidad, Atty. Victor Lazatin, Secretary Menardo Guevarra, Atty. Edmundo Tan, Atty. Victoriano Orocio, and Prof. Mario Valderrama. PDRC Chairman Atty. Victor P. Lazatin, President Atty. Edmundo L. Tan, Corporate Secretary Atty. Patricia-Ann T. Prodigalidad, Membership Committee Chair Atty. Victoriano V. Orocio, Trustee Prof. Mario [...]

Royal Government of Bhutan visits PDRC

From left: Alec Marcelino; Jennifer Catindig, Paibare; Bamba Parungao, PDRC Administrative Officer; Francisco Pabilla, Jr., PDRC Assistant Secretary General; Atty. Edmundo Tan, PDRC President; Chimi Dorje, ADRC Chief Administrator, and Tashi Dendup, ADRC Accounts Officer.   Chimi Dorje, Chief Administrator and Tashi Dendup, Accounts Officer of the of The Royal Government of Bhutan Alternative Dispute [...]

PDRC joins PACV launching

PACV Arbitration Center ceremonial ribbon-cutting. From left: Atty. Joenar Pueblo, Atty. Ricardo Ongkiko, Atty. Roberto Dio, RTC Executive Judge Gloria Madero, and Atty. Donemark Calimon The Philippine Arbitration Center in the Visayas (PACV) and the Philippine Dispute Resolution Center Inc. (PDRCI), in cooperation with the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) Iloilo Chapter, formally launched [...]

Supreme Court orders contractor to complete project and shoulder 60% of increase in construction costs after delay of 12 years

In its Decision dated July 5, 2017 in Chua v. Colorite Marketing Corporation (G.R. Nos. 193969-70 and G.R. Nos. 194027-28), the Supreme Court ordered contractor Ka Kuen Chua Architectural (“KKCA”) to complete a construction project and shoulder 60% of its cost after a delay of 12 years. The Supreme Court found that KKCA breached its [...]