House Bill 6204 aims to ELIMINATE prescription of penalties under RPC

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Vince F. Nonato - Reporter / @VinceNonatoINQ Philippine Daily Inquirer / 06:35 PM September 06, 2017: The proposed Revised Penal Code would also do away with the prescription of penalties, the limitation within which the penalty can be imposed when the convict escapes the service of his sentence.

It would also require civil liabilities to be tried simultaneously and jointly with the criminal proceedings against a defendant. If the civil action is instituted first, it would have to be transferred to the court where the criminal case is subsequently filed.
“The filing of the criminal action shall carry with it the filing of civil action, and no right to reserve the filing of such civil action separately from the criminal action shall be allowed,” the bill read.

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