Former U.P. Law Dean Pangalangan on the Supreme Court decision regarding plagiarism: "The latest injustice to the comfort women": opinion.inquirer.net

"PROF. HARRY Roque was reading the Supreme Court’s decision in the case that he filed in behalf of the comfort women, and he felt that certain passages looked eerily familiar. He then instructed a young associate in his firm, the Roque Butuyan Law Offices, to check out these passages in the Internet.

Romel Bagares, the associate, was shocked to find entire pages filled with text lifted verbatim—not just from the body of the article but also the footnotes—from three academic articles published abroad, and all these without making it clear to the reader that the text was not original to the ponente, Justice Mariano C. del Castillo."
 
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Former UP Law Dean Pangalangan on the Supreme Court decision re plagiarism "The latest injustice to the comfort women": opinion.inquirer.net