Seniority should be considered in choosing next Chief Justice — Leonen

Supreme Court (SC) Associate Justice Marvic Leonen believes that seniority should be consideredin choosing the next chief justice. "Seniority is a marker of something. Seniority is a marker of experience, it is also a marker of a person who knows his or her colleagues," Leonen said in an interview with ANC's Headstart on Thursday. "If you stay in the court longer, you become more familiar with the people that you work with including the staff, chief of offices, the judges of lower courts, the appellate courts, so seniority, I think, is a marker. It is not, per se, the only requirement, but seniority as a marker of something like experience," Leonen said. Not aspiring for Sereno'...

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