Ruben T Reyes was a Filipino jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from 2007 to 2009.
19 Facts About Ruben Reyes
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Ruben Reyes engaged in private practice for several years before becoming an assistant city fiscal in Manila.
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Ruben Reyes was then appointed a trial court judge, assigned first in Bataan, then in Manila where he received an Outstanding RTC award and became RTC Judges Association president.
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Ruben Reyes edited the Philippine Judges Association Newsletter and Bench Bulletin.
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Ruben Reyes studied 8 summer courses in the US, including the 1st Harvard Law School Workshop for Law Teachers and Scholars, the 35th Academy of American and International Law, Appellate Judges Seminar, California Judicial College and National Judicial College.
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Ruben Reyes was president of the Philippine Association of Law Professors, trustee and lecturer of the Philippine Judicial Academy.
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Ruben Reyes received the following awards - the CUP Outstanding Justice of the Court of Appeals, Bulacan Dangal ng Lipi, YMCA Presidential awards, and two Supreme Court awards on judicial reforms.
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Ruben Reyes was conferred Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, by Northwestern University, Laoag City on 10 April 2007.
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Ruben Reyes spearheaded the clamor for Mandatory Continuing Legal Education for lawyers in the Philippines and Asia-Pacific.
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Ruben Reyes sat on the appellate court for 13 years, and was eventually named as its Presiding Justice in December 2005.
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Ruben Reyes was appointed to the Supreme Court on 2 August 2007, by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
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Ruben Reyes had been nominated to the Supreme Court four previous times by the Judicial and Bar Council before he was finally appointed to fill the vacancy left with the retirement of Romeo J Callejo, Sr.
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Ruben Reyes was due to retire in January 2009, when he reached the age of 70.
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Ruben Reyes retired from the Court in January 2009 upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 70.
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On 14 August 2009, Ruben Reyes was found guilty by the Supreme Court of leaking an unpromulgated draft decision that he had penned in the election disqualification case against Negros Oriental Rep.
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Ruben Reyes was indefinitely barred from practicing law and disqualified from holding government position.
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The decision that indefinitely barred Justice Ruben Reyes from practicing law has been reversed on 16 April 2013, for humanitarian reasons.
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Ruben Reyes noted that the use of Filipino in Del Pilar's Diariong Tagalog played a major role in enlightening Filipinos about the oppression during the Spanish regime.
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On 28 September 2007, Ruben Reyes clarified that he was not the "Ruben Reyes" mentioned in the network deal scandal.