The Lucio Tan tax evasion case

Government loses at Court of Appeals

The office of the solicitor-general OSG is the agency that represents the government whenever it goes to court. On March 7, 1994, the commissioner and the OSG filed with the Supreme Court a petition for certiorari under Rule 65 of the Rules of Court to annul the abovementioned orders of the Quezon City RTC.

In another display of lack of mastery of remedial procedure on the part of the OSG, the Supreme Court denied the petition and referred it to the Court of Appeals,...