Sereno’s camp will use the recovered SALNs to bolster her defense in the impending impeachment trial at the Senate. Lawyer Romeo Igot has petitioned the SC to compel Sereno to submit the missing SALNs. Sereno allegedly did not submit her SALNs in 2001 and 2003 to 2009 when she taught in the premier law school. “Since the record shows that the Chief Justice was on leave without pay, she was not required to file any SALN for these years,” the Chief Justice pointed out. Therefore, even assuming that it was shown that the Chief Justice had not filed her SALNs as a UP professor, said failure would not necessarily have made her ineligible for the position of Chief Justice,” she stressed.

Source: Philippine Star March 20, 2018 15:45 UTC