Recent Legal Updates
Criminal Law
Child Abuse: Debase, Degrade or Demean Dignity
Trademark Law
No Likelihood of Confusion between Custom-Made Jeans vs. Ready-to-Wears
Labor Law
Forget the Company Physician, High Court will Follow Injured Seafarer’s Doc
Criminal Law
Clients who swindle their banks not liable for syndicated estafa
Labor Law
Four absences in six months not sufficient to constitute gross habitual neglect
Copyright Law
3 Things Filipino Travelers, Residents, and OFWs Should Remember in Bringing Home Copyrighted Materials
Family Law
Valid license is necessary to prove fact of a marriage
Real Estate Law
Condo buyer’s right to nullify mortgage of project owner limited only to specific interest in building, not to entire secured property
Labor Law
Redundancy still valid basis for terminating employee but company needs to show “adequate proof” to establish good faith
Mining Update
FNS scores win for mining in Romblon
Construction Arbitration
PHL Court liberally construes CIAC jurisdiction,
arbitration covers third party sureties to construction contracts
Corporation Law
Absolute acceptance of all terms of a sale offer by corporation’s
authorized officers required to complete contract
Corporation Law
Board of dissolved corporation still has powers to wind up and liquidate entity, affairs subject of intra-corporate dispute rules
Real Estate Law
Court upholds Housing Board jurisdiction over mortgage covering condos or subdivisions
Criminal Procedure
Father convicted of qualified rape instead of statutory, description of crime charged controlling
Mining Update
The Mining Law Review - Mining Law - Philippines Mining Law
Mining Update
Philippine Government’s New Mining Policies and Guidelines
Investment Update
9th Regular Foreign Investment Negative List (FINL) now in place
Labor Law
Punctuality is common sense standard; tardiness sufficient cause for axing probee
Torts and Damages
Registered Owner of Vehicle, Not Employer, Liable for Driver’s Negligence
Evidence
Offer of Compromise Prior to Filing of Criminal Case Inadmissible
Labor Law
Employees of a Losing Division may be Retrenched, While Entire Company Remains Profitable
Doing Business in the Philippines
Foreign companies without PHL license can still sue Filipino dealerships
Trademark Registration
5 Things to Expect with PHL’s Accession to the Madrid Protocol
Tax Appeals
No Need to Wait 180 Days: Reckoning Date to Appeal is Date of Receipt of CIR Decision on Protest
Constitutional Rights
Should Miranda Warnings Be Given to Traffic Violators?
Labor
Medical Certificate Needed as Proof for Absence Due to Illness
Equal Protection
Feeling singled out? You may not be alone
Labor
Time’s Up! Employers Can Dismiss Probees Before Lapse of 6 Months
Labor
Why Companies Easily Lose Their Appeal
Technology
GPS Tracking: Will Philippine courts follow US vs. Jones?
Technology
PHL SC: Limitations on Privacy of Employee’s Computer Use Valid
Labor
“General Managers" just employees if not in By-Laws
Intellectual Property
New IP Rules of Procedure Released
Taxation
Internal Revenue Round-up
Trademark Law
When totality is not enough: abandoning the Holistic
Test
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In almost two decades of providing legal services to the public, FNS has evolved to become one of the more distinguished and prominent law firms in the Philippines, hurdling legal battles of historical importance with its innovative and ingenious approach to client-problems.
Housed at the 23rd Floor of Multinational Bancorporation Centre at the heart of the Makati Business District, FNS opened its first branch office in Cavite, Philippines in 1999 and a liaison and referral office in Hongkong known as the Fortun Narvasa & Salazar (H.K.) Services Limited in 2002. Its Baguio City branch office was likewise opened in August 2003 to better serve its clients in Northern Luzon.
With its diversified practice ranging from the prosecution of individual and corporate civil and criminal actions to assisting clients in commercial transactions to providing valued advice in the fast-growing global field of electronic commerce and telecommunications, the Firm provides individualized and cost-effective legal service without compromising the exacting demands of professional excellence and quality.
With FNS, you are assured of quality legal service done through efficient and economically sound processes.
Leading Law Firm for the years 2009-2012 in Dispute Resolution and Projects Infrastructure and Energy.
Philip Sigfrid A. Fortun is the leading individual 2009-2012 for Dispute Resolution and Roderick R. C. Salazar III is the leading individual 2009-2012 for Projects Infrastructure and Energy.
