For convenient reference of GMA News Online followers keenly interested in legal details, presented here are the two sets of Supreme Court resolutions, which are the current focus of the proceedings in the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona in the Senate. On Monday, February 27 the Senate is expected to continue hearing the testimony of Secretary of Justice Leila de Lima, who testified last week on the SC resolution and dissenting opinions concerning the watch list order the Department of Justice issued against former President and incumbent Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The SC documents cited herein are posted on the website of the high court. The Supreme Court resolutions and dissenting opinions on the temporary restraining order against the watch list order versus former President Arroyo:
Dissenting Opinions:
Separate Opinions:
Concurring Opinion:
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resolution on the “Production of Court Records and Documents and the Attendance of Court officials and employees as witnesses under the subpoenas of February 10, 2012 and the various letters for the Impeachment Prosecution Panel dated January 19 and 25, 2012”
Excerpt from the dissent of Associate Justice Antonio Carpio:
"When a Justice explains his dissent, he may even include in his dissent internal deliberations if such internal deliberations are material in complying with his constitutional duty to state the reasons for his dissent." http://sc.judiciary.gov.ph/jurisprudence/2012/february2012/feb.14-notice-carpio.html Excerpt from the dissent of Associate Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno:
"I concur with the majority that all documents which are directly and intimately connected to the adjudicatory function performed by Justices, such as drafts, research materials, internal memorandum, minutes, agenda, recommended actions, and other similar documents that are “predecisional” and “deliberative”, fall within the rule on qualified judicial privilege and cannot be disclosed or be the subject of compulsory processes of the Impeachment Court. However, those court documents which pertain to administrative and non-adjudicatory matters should be made available for public scrutiny, especially when its production is being compelled by the Impeachment Court." http://sc.judiciary.gov.ph/jurisprudence/2012/february2012/feb.14-notice-sereno.htm — ELR, GMA News 
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