A week before retirement, outgoing Chief Justice Diosdado Peralta disclosed that he is planning to go back to teaching.
When asked by the media on his plans in an event he attended earlier today, Peralta abruptly answered “number one is I will go back to teaching.”
The top magistrate also said that he is working on legal books.
“I’m about to release a book on criminal law 1 and in the next 2 months I will finish criminal law 2 for students,” Peralta disclosed.
Aside from teaching, Peralta shared that it is high time to be closer to his family since he has been working too hard during his stint in the highest court of the land.
“Probably to be with my mother because she’s already 96 years-old. She’s living in the province so I would have more time to see her,” he mused.
Res Ipsa Loquitur
The Chief Justice was asked about his legacy in the high court, to which he replied in Latin “res ipsa loquitur”, a phrase which means “the thing speaks for itself.”
“That question should not be addressed to me because if I will tell my legacy, self-serving. Kayo naman yata alam naman ninyo what I’ve been doing all these months (You might know what I’ve been doing all these months),” he added.
Peralta was appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte to the Philippines’ top judicial post on October 2019. He is supposedly set to retire on March 2022 but filed for an earlier retirement which was approved by the Judicial and Bar Council. He shall be to leaving the High Court on March 27, 2021, a full year earlier. — Kenneth Paciente
