Participants in the Gender and Development (GAD) Planning Workshop listen and respond intensely on the objective of the gender issue identification, spells out the result that the agency intends to achieve in terms of addressing the gender issue.Justice Secretary Leila De Lima interrogates and listens to one of the witnesses in the Atimonan shooting incident during the re-enactment at the actual site of the encounter between police and 13 alleged shootout victims near at the boundary in the towns of Plaridel and Atimonan, Quezon. Justice Secretary Leila De Lima extends great appreciation to Philippine Postal Corporation Postmaster General & CEO Ma. Josefina M. Dela Cruz over the signing of the MOA on franking privileges for all mails and packages of the Department. Secretary Leila De Lima presides over the meeting of the Inter-Agency Committee on Extra Legal Killing, Enforced Disappearances, Torture and other Grave Violation of the right to life Liberty and Security of Persons during the Committee’s initial meeting on January 8, 2013 at the Department of Justice, Manila. Secretary Leila De Lima makes emphasis on the significance of the Inter-Agency Committee on Extra Legal Killing, Enforced Disappearances, Torture and other Grave Violation of the right to life Liberty and Security of Persons during the meeting at the Department of Justice, Manila.
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Request for Price Quotation - Purchase of 15 units Office All-in-One Printers

Notice of Award - Purchase of 3 units Toyota Innova & 1 unit Toyota Hi - Ace Commuter Van for IACAT

Request for Price Quotation - Purchase of 154 pcs of Toner Cartridge (EP-303) for Canon LBP-2900 Laser Printers

Request for Price Quotation - General Cleaning of 340 units Window Type and Split Type Airconditioners installed at Various Offices in the Department of Justice

Request for Price Quotation - Relocation of Aircon Pipes due to Spilling Problems Comes from the Moist of Piping System of Airconditioning Units at Server Room of MISD Office

Request for Price Quotation - Purchase of various office supplies for DOJ Proper & NCR Offices

Supplemental/Bid Bulletin 2 - To the Invitation to Bid for the Repair/Improvement of Various DOJ Offices including Site Development Works

Request for Price Quotation - Purchase of various office supplies for BOC

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News

Criminal Code Committee Starts Work on Book 2 of Revised Penal Code
The Criminal Code Committee (CCC) of the Department of Justice (DOJ) recently reported that work has begun on the drafting of Book 2 of the new criminal Code, a priority  project of the current administration to simplify, codify and rationali... continue reading
Secretary De Lima Orders Probe into Custody Arrangements over Slain Sablayan Inmate
In connection with the killing last 14 June 2013 of RONALD HO, an inmate in the Sablayan Prison 'and Penal Farm, Secretary LEILA M. DE LIMA has directed Bureau of  Corrections (BuCor) Director FRANKLIN B. BUCAYU to investigate, not just t... continue reading
Philippine Government Makes Global Commitment Against Death Penalty in Madrid World Congress
Yesterday, 12 June 2013, Justice Secretary Leila M. De Lima attended the Opening Ceremony of the Fifth World Congress Against Death Penalty in Madrid, Spain, as the  official representative of President Benigno S. Aquino III.   D... continue reading
Statement of Secretary De Lima on the Killing of Batangas Assistant Provincial Prosecutor Alexander Sandoval
We, in the Department of Justice, have been struck by tragedy today, as we learned of the shameless and senseless killing of one of our valued colleagues.   Assistant Provincial Prosecutor Alexander Sandoval, Office of the Pro... continue reading
Criminal and Administrative Charges to be Filed in Connection with the Undocumented Departure of Park Sungjun
In a Report dated 4 June 2013, the DOJ-NBI Fact-Finding Team, which was constituted thru Department Order No. 204 dated 26 March 2013, to conduct a fact-finding investigation into the unrecorded/undocumented departure from the Philippines, on 19 M... continue reading
DOJ Launches Course on Competition Policy and Law (CPL)
The DOJ - Office for Competition (OFC) is launching the first ever course on Competition Policy and Law (CPL) in the country.   This introductory course is intended to be an  elective subject for law students to be piloted at the... continue reading
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History of DOJ

The Department of Justice traces its beginnings at the Revolutionary Assembly in Naic, Cavite on April 17, 1897. The establishment of a regime of law was tasked to Don Severino delas Alas who headed the Department of Grace and Justice. Shortly after the proclamation of Independence in Kawit, Cavite on June 12, 1898, President Emilio Aguinaldo issued a decree on September 26, 1898 reorganizing the Department. A year later, the American military force established the Office of the Attorney of... continue reading