Florin hilbay biography of albert
•
Below is the complete statement of former Solicitor-general Florin Hilbay of what went on behind-the-scenes of the adjudication of the arbitral case filed by the Philippines against China. In the end, he attributes its success to former President Noynoy Aquino even if there is no mention of his active involvement except that of his trusted lieutenants and adviser on Political Affairs, Ronald Llamas.
(N.B. Below text scraped from images attached to tweets posted by former Solicitor General Florin Hilbay here and here respectively. Minor scraping errors rectified. Hyperlinks to documents and articles referred to in the transcription below provided by GRP editors)
* * * START OF DOCUMENT * * *
A Few Facts About the Arbitration Against China.
Florin T. Hilbay
I read with amusement and disappointment retired Justice Antonio Carpio’s 1 July 2021 piece in the Inquirer. Let me take this opportunity to point out falsehoods and inaccuracies in his story, and tell the nation a
•
About Face, Rizal (Part 2)
Fresh from leading our legal grupp against China in The Hague at the end of July, Solicitor General Florin T. Hilbay made a radical turn on Torre dem Manila. avfärd from his original mainstream position on the Knights of Rizal versus DMCI in the Supreme Court, he entered deeper legal waters.
“The original comment we filed a year ago had always felt too legalistic to me. At the time, no one had the good legal basis to go all-out for the Rizal Monument. So we ended up reading the law conservatively, applying the standard technical rules against the Knights of Rizal,” he acknowledged.
Solicitor General Florin Hilbay (right) at the Supreme Court, where he argued that the SC has the power to order the demolition of the Torre de Manila for violating the vista of the Rizal Monument. Photo taken on August 4, 2015. GMA News/Joseph Morong
•
Post Views:126
INDEED this often happens after a crime, when the gang members disagree among themselves, and they end up ratting on each other.
His shiny ego pricked by former Supreme Court justice Antonio Carpio’s thinly veiled criticism of him in his July 1, 2021 Philippine Daily Inquirer column, that he purportedly tried to block the filing of the arbitration case against China, former Solicitor General Florin Hilbay immediately hit back at Carpio the following day.
Inadvertently, he disclosed the real goal of the arbitration: To remove the Chinese blocking of certain oligarchs’ natural-gasextraction project in the disputed Reed Bank.
In a self-congratulatory, five-page document he posted in his Facebook wall, Hilbay revealed what I have been claiming in several past columns. It wasn’t patriotism that drove former foreign secretary Albert del Rosario and Carpio to propose and undertake vigorously the arbitration suit against China.
Rather, the arbitrati