No less tha Supreme Court Chief Justice Diosdado Peralta and Court of Appeals Associate Justice Eduardo Peralta Jr. wrote the much-awaited book “Insights on Evidence” which contains the most updated Supreme Court revisions on the country’ rules on evidence.
In his foreword, Justice Romeo Callejo Sr., Vice-Chancellor of the Philippine Judicial Academy (PHILJA), said the book “aims to highlight the salient points of the 2019 Rules on Evidence, reconcile its provisions with those of the retained rules, and address the gaps or inconsistencies that might result in the application of the new procedural rules.”
This latest edition will be “even more comprehensive, given the recent approval of the 2019 Proposed Amendments to the Revised Rules on Evidence,” Callejo added.
Former Chief Justice Reynato Puno, for his part, underscored the crucial role of the rules on evidence in ensuring “a better quality of justice," given that the rules "prevent the tampering of truth.”
"Its mastery by our arbiters of justice is a must for its wrong application is certain to result in failure of justice,” said Puno, who, in 2008, initiated the proposed amendments to the Revised Rules on Evidence.
Puno lauded the book for having drawn on the “wisdom of the most learned commentators on the law on evidence like McCormick, Mueller, Kirkpatrick, Lempert, Saltzburg, and others.”
Chief Justice Peralta said he is grateful and appreciative of his co-author “for allowing him to make a humble contribution to his opus: Perspectives of Evidence,” describing the CA Associate Justice as “one of the leading lights and a credible authority in the intricacies of remedial law.”
For his part, CA Justice Eduardo Peralta, Jr. said that “to collaborate with no less than the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in spurring a project on the new Rules on Evidence was definitely a daunting task.”
“With invocation of divine intercession and focus amidst the global pandemic since December 2019, the product labelled Insights on Evidence finally materialized," he added.