PLDC MOTIONS 2023: CRIMINAL JUSTICE

ASSIGNED INFOSLIDE MOTION ISSUES RELEVANT LAWS ARGUMENTS SOURCES NOTES

AND GOV OPP
JURISPRUDENCE
VICTOR THBT the justice WoN all non- Necessity Necessity For op side, how do you
system should violent crimes Beneficiality Beneficiality penalize nonviolent crime?
prioritize should be Practicality Practicality rehabilitation? -- - not all
rehabilitation rehabilitated non-violent crimes can be
over "healed" through
punishment for rehabilitation
non- violent
crimes
VICTOR THBT statutes of Abolish vs Extend Necessity Necessity  Search; Rationale behind
limitations Beneficiality Beneficiality prescription:
should be Practicality Practicality https://www.projectjurisp
abolished for rudence.com/2019/02/4-
sexual assault reasons-for-law-on-
crimes. prescription.html

 Statute of limitations:
period of limitation for the
bringing of certain kinds of
legal action
VICTOR IN People vs THR the ruling Possibility vs Necessity Necessity  low prosecution rate in
Ling Wai in People v. Seized Drug Size Beneficiality Beneficiality terms of drugs cases due
Tang, the Lung wai tang Practicality Practicality to strict rules of
Supreme procedure; purpose of
Court held procedure. statistics etc.
that the  Pendency of corruption in
large the law enforcement.
quantity of
drugs seized
renders
unlikely the
possibility of
planting or
tampering
evidence.
IDA THW relax  Strict Necessity: Paint the Necessity https://  https://
evidentiary adherence vs picture: PH is a corrupt www.doj.gov.ph/ www.officialgazette.gov.ph
rules on problem in government, ranked anti-graft- /2012/05/29/speech-of-
authentication corruption highest in the list. This laws.html senator-miriam-defensor-
of documents in  How is an issue of santiago-explaining-her-
cases involving authentication transcendent verdict-on-chief-justice-
graft and affects importance that the renato-corona-may-29-
corruption validity/weight country needs to 2012/
of evidence address immediately.
Rigor of the rules vs
 importance to address  https://
the issue manilastandard.net/
Beneficiality: Make it Beneficially opinion/columns/
easier for officials to footnotes-by-tranquil-g-s-
review and file salvador-iii/314235102/
evidence. It is never authenticating-
easy to prosecute documents.html
corruption.
Practicality Practicality: May open  Search for the rules on
a plethora of cases evidence in cases that
filed due to relaxed involves corruption
rules. Can cause
unnecessary/false
cases filed.
Documents can be
tampered with (?)
IDA On 10 TH supports the  WoN this will Necessity Necessity  https://doj.gov.ph/files/
February standard set by infringe on the Beneficiality Beneficiality 2023/DC_2023/DC
2023, Sec. the Dept power of the Practicality Practicality %20016%20dated
Boying Circular 008 in court to decide. %2024%20February
Remulla determining  What is the %202023.pdf
issued Dept when a extent of
Circular 008 prosecutor "reasonable
which should file a certainty of
changed the criminal charge conviction"?
standard for before the MTC
when a
prosecutor
should file
criminal
charges at
the MTC
level from
"probable
cause" to
"reasonable
certainty of
conviction."
IDA THW require  What kind of Necessity Necessity https:// Search: WHAT ARE THE
offenders, who felonies? Beneficiality Beneficiality www.scribd.com/ KINDS OF LIGHT OR LESS
are found guilty  Cost Practicality Practicality document/ GRAVE FELONIES? is it ok na
of light or less  Willingness 402771717/Crim- instead of imprisonment
grave felonies  Repeat Law-grave- they go through a diversion.
or their Offenders Felonies-Less- (Same with rehabilitation
equivalents, to Grave-Light- motion)
undergo a Felonies-docx
diversion
program instead
 of
imprisonment.

PLDC 2023 MOTION: ECON

ASSIGNED INFOSLIDE MOTION ISSUES RELEVANT LAWS ARGUMENTS SOURCES NOTES

AND GOV
JURISPRUDENCE
JUDE Necessity
Beneficiality
Practicality
JUDE TH supports an Economic  Geneva Necessity: "Sanctions not
interpretation Sanctions, War Convention only have little
of international Crimes (GC), Art 49 ameliorative effect on a
law that treats (see ICRC state’s human rights
economic updated conditions and behavior,
sanctions as Commentary) they may actually make
war crimes things worse. Weiss et al.
 GC II, Art 50 (1997) detail the
(see ICRC extensive harm to
updated civilians in cases such as
Commentary) Haiti and Iraq as a result
of sanctions. Wood
 GC III, Art. 82- (2008) and Peksen and
108, 129 Drury (2009) both find
that sanctions lead to a
 GC IV, Art 146 significant increase in the
 Protocol I, Art. use of repression and
85(1) political terror by target
regimes in order to
 Customary IHL, stabilize the political
Rules 100-102, environment and
157 and 158 suppress dissent.
Sanctions lead to a
decrease in overall
physical integrity rights,
increased economic and
political discrimination
against minority ethnic
groups, and a
deterioration of public
health conditions in
target states (Weiss 1999;
Peksen 2009; 2011; 2013;
OPP
Necessity For op side, how do
Beneficiality you penalize
Practicality nonviolent crime?
rehabilitation? -- - not
all non-violent crimes
can be "healed"
through rehabilitation
Necessity: Economic  Search; Rationale
sanctions should be behind prescription:
treated as a legal tool https://www.project
that combats threats to jurisprudence.com/2
peace devoid of any 019/02/4-reasons-
military physical attack. for-law-on-
Economic sanctions prescription.html
lessen casualties of war
and are regulated by  Statute of
international law for their limitations: period of
proper disposition. The limitation for the
Security Council can call bringing of certain
for collective economic kinds of legal action
sanctions under Article 41
of the UN Charter if it has
first determined, under
Article 39, the existence
of a threat to the peace,
breach of the peace, or
act of aggression, and if
the sanctions are
imposed to maintain or
restore international
peace and security.
Last Resort: War must be
the last resort. Given the
horrendous harms it
creates, war must be
necessary in order to be
just. If other, less
harmful, alternatives are
available such as
Allen and Lektzian 2013) economic sanctions or
https://discover.wooster.e diplomatic measures,
du/mkrain/files/2014/01/ then war is not necessary
SanctionsGP1.pdf and therefore not just.
Under just war theory it is
not the case that all the
alternative measures
must actually be
attempted first: if it is
obvious they would not
work then there is no
requirement to make
such attempts.

According to Gordon,
comprehensive economic
sanctions are justified on
utilitarian grounds in
cases where ‘the
economic hardship of the
civilian population of the
target country entails less
human harm overall, and
less harm to the
sanctioned population,
than the military
aggression or human
rights violations the
sanctions seek to prevent’
(Gordon, 1999, 133).
Beneficiality: Economic Beneficiality: Sanctions
Sanctions Produce publicly signal
Unintended international disapproval
Consequences to of the perpetrators and
Ordinary People and Non- their actions, potentially
Target Parties changing perpetrators’
The unintended self-perceptions.
consequences to non- Perpetrators’ sense of
target countries and “the rightness of their
parties, as well as the cause” is reaffirmed by
ordinary citizens and the passivity of
facets of the target bystanders, but called
countries, collectively into question in the face
represent the most of a challenge that frames
damning of all of the them as norms and rights
disadvantages of violators (Staub 1989;
economic sanctions. 1996; Des Forges 1999,
Analyst Dursun Peksen 26). Sanctions also affect
raised the question of the relationship between
whether or not sanctions perpetrators and their
compel governments to (potential) allies or
uphold human rights. partners. Framing
The results also showed perpetrators as
that sanctioned countries international pariahs
had created makes it harder for others
environments that were to support or do business
more detrimental to with them without also
human rights. This is true being similarly labeled
for extensive sanctions (Schneider 2000, 155-
and when compared to 156; Peterson and Drury,
partial or selective 2011).
sanctions. Multilateral
sanctions also had a
greater overall negative
impact on the civil and
innate human rights of
the citizens than
unilateral sanctions. Of
course, because these
sanctions affect the
economic direction of a
target country, their
implementation resulted
in an economic downfall
as evident from
unfavorable
macroeconomic
indicators. Myanmar was
one of the richest
countries in Southeast
Asia before the military
regime. Sanctions
effectively placed people
below the poverty line.

The Russia-Ukraine War

also showed negative
effects of economic
sanctions on non-target
countries and parties. The
ban on Russian
hydrocarbon products
resulted in sharp
increases in the global
prices of petroleum.
Several economies
recovering from the
impacts of the COVID-19
pandemic have been
threatened by higher
inflation rates and
business slowdowns.
Practicality: Sanctions
may not be effective in
combatting perpetrators
of human rights violations
but would cause lingering
effects to the economy
even after war. Sanctions
may also need to be in
place for some time to
have an effect (Lopez
2011). They are only likely
to affect the behavior of
perpetrators of atrocities
if they believe that
sanctioners are
committed to seeing
sanctions through, which
will not likely occur until
some time has passed.
Moreover, threats of
sanctions may actually be
more effective than their
implementation. If
economic statecraft is
conceived of as a
strategic interaction
between sender and
target, then threats
provide senders with
leverage, while the need
to follow through
suggests that such
leverage has been
unsuccessful. Recent
research suggests that
threats that have not
been carried out are
often more effective at
yielding policy changes in
the target than are
sanctions that have been
implemented (Drezner
2003; Lacy and Niou
2004).
Practicality: Laws which
consider acts as war
crimes require a long
history and experience of
suffering. The amount of
suffering required to
consider as a war crime
cannot be found in the
imposition of economic
sanctions. On July 1,
2002, the International
Criminal Court, a treaty-
based court located in
The Hague, came into
being for the prosecution
of war crimes committed
on or after that date.
Several nations, most
notably the United States,
China, Russia, and Israel,
have criticized the court.
The United States still
participates as an
observer. Article 12 of the
Rome Statute provides
jurisdiction over the
citizens of non-
contracting states if they
are accused of
committing crimes in the
territory of one of the
state parties. Nothing in
this law enumerates
economic santions as war
crimes.
JUDE IN People vs THW abolish Corporate Necessity: The Absurdity Necessity  low prosecution rate
Ling Wai the concept of abolitionism, Rationale expresses the in terms of drugs
Tang, the corporate corporate view that, because cases due to strict
Supreme personhood personhood, corporations are not rules of procedure;
Court held corporate rights, conscious, living agents, purpose of
that the liberal democracy, corporate personhood procedure. statistics
large pragmatism must involve a category etc.
quantity of mistake. Since even  Pendency of
drugs seized lawyers and judges corruption in the law
renders acknowledge that it is a enforcement.
unlikely the legal fiction, to base our
possibility of political understandings
planting or of rights on such
tampering sophistry is to invite
evidence. inanity into society. The
underlying objection here
is that law ought to be
scrutable and
understandable to those
subject to it. Because
corporate personhood is
nonsensical, it is
illegitimate and therefore
must be eliminated.
Corporate rights have
been expanded by the
Supreme Court under the
guise of corporate
personhood.

The Plutocracy Rationale

stems from the fear that
conceiving of
corporations as bearers of
constitutional rights
reinforces the immense
economic advantages
they already derive from
their legal personhood,
thereby facilitating
intolerable and ever-
growing inequality in
social and political power.
The normative
underpinning here is
broadly speaking
egalitarian in orientation.
Corporate personhood
ought to be abolished
because the
consequences are
offensive to the
egalitarian commitments
inherent to a democratic
society.
Beneficiality: rights of Beneficiality
natural persons are being
threatened as a result of
the legal doctrine of
corporate personhood.
The Distinctiveness
Rationale derives from
the concern that if
corporate personhood
remains, we will be
forced to put
corporations on the same
constitutional footing as
us. By treating
corporations the same as
we do humans, we dilute
the political and moral
value of our own
humanity. The objection
here has a Kantian flavor.
Since corporations are
merely means to human
ends, not ends in
themselves, they are not,
and should not, be
considered as equal in
normative standing.

Corporate personhood
causes corporate
empowerment, granting
corporations excessive
influence over society.
Corporations use their
financial resources to
elect candidates who will
turn a blind eye to
corporations’
questionable business
dealings or will push the
agenda of private
companies.
Practicality Practicality
PLDC 2023 MOTIONS: ENVIRONMENT

ASSIGNED INFOSLIDE MOTION ISSUES RELEVANT LAWS ARGUMENTS SOURCES NOTES

AND GOV OPP
JURISPRUDENCE
PJ THW establish a Necessity Necessity  four crimes tried by
global court to Beneficiality Beneficiality ICC
prosecute Practicality Practicality  crimes orbitraded by
environmental ICJ; and crimes na
crimes. pinupunish generally
under international
law ex. piracy.
PJ In Paje v Casiño THBT the Necessity Necessity  WRIT OF KALIKASAN
(2015) and Abogado evidentiary Beneficiality Beneficiality (REMEDY YOU
v DENR (2019), the requirements Practicality Practicality IMPOSE FROM
Supreme Court held found in Rule 7 COURT TO HOLD OR
that: "Under Section Section 1 of the FORCE ORGS OR
1 of Rule 7 of the Rules of ENTITIES FROM
Rules of Procedure Procedure for DOING SOMETHING
for Environmental Environmental AGIANST THE
Cases, the following Cases frustrates ENVIRONMENT.
requisites must be the purpose of  rules of procedure in
present to avail of writs of environmental
[the remedy of the kalikasan cases; elemnts of
writ of kalikasan]: writ of kalikasan
(1) there is an actual
or threatened
violation of the
constitutional right
to a balanced and
healthful ecology;
(2) the actual or
threatened violation
arises from an
unlawful act or
omission of a public
official or employee,
or private individual
or entity; and (3) the
actual or threatened
violation involves or
will lead to an
environmental
damage of such
magnitude as to
prejudice the life,
health or property
 of inhabitants in two
or more cities or
provinces." In
Abogado v DENR,
the separate
concurring opinion
of J. Peralta also
emphasized the
need for judicial
affidavits attached
to the petition
PJ THBT persons Extent of Art. 11 and 12 of Necessity Necessity  excepting circums
who commit criminal the Revised Penal Beneficiality Beneficiality under the RPC.
acts done in act/liabilit Code Practicality Practicality (protection of
defense of the y environment might
environment relate to one of
should be them kindly check)
exempt from  ano mas applicable
criminal liability. sa JEM.

PLDC 2023 MOTIONS: FAMILY

ASSIGNED INFOSLIDE MOTION ISSUES RELEVANT LAWS ARGUMENTS SOURCES NOTES

AND GOV OPP
JURISPRUDENCE
JOHANNA THW  perceived Sections 1 & 2, Necessity: Necessity: Sanctions Concubinage v
decriminalize permissiveness Art. XV, 1987 Decriminalization of against marital infidelity adultery, is marital
marital of the state Constitution marital infidelity allows embeds upon the infidelity truly a crime
infidelity. regarding the the State to offender the (does it impact the
immoral act systematically address the wrongfulness of his or her society as a whole) ???
 proliferation of issue, so that it may fulfill act and the power of the
illegitimate its mandate of protecting State to punish wrongful
children marriage as enshrined in acts.
 derogation of the Constitution.
the sanctity of Beneficiality: Beneficiality: There would
marriage which Rehabilitation programs, be no, or at least,
is enshrined in instead of sanctions, reduced, inclination to
the Family would redound to the commit a wrongful act.
Code benefit of Philippine
 hijacked society itself, and the
property amount of marital
relations infidelity cases would
between reduce over time.
husband and Practicality Practicality
wife
 Discrimination
against women;
adultery v.
 concubinage
JOHANNA THW allow a  Art. 842, 887, Necessity: The power to Necessity: Disinheritance  Compulsary heirs
testator to Family Code disinherit compulsory of compulsory heirs for and ano shairs nila./
disinherit  Arts. 919-921, heirs for any ground is “any ground” is % of property na
compulsory Civil Code merely an exercise of the sufficiently covered by nakukuha. though
heirs for any freedom of expression. Articles 919, 920 and 921 hindi absolute and
ground There would be less of the New Civil Code. compolsary heirs
intrusion from the State  grounds for
regarding individual disinheriting
property rights. compulsary heirs.
Beneficiality: Allowing Beneficiality: The grounds
disinheritance to prosper on disinheritance
from any ground deemed provided by the law
proper by the testator ensure that no inequity or
would ironically injustice would be
strengthen family propagated by the
relations, or at the very testator.
least, encourage the
compulsory heirs to be
productive members of
society.
Practicality Practicality: Abiding by
the grounds provided by
law for disinheritance
allows the maintenance
of a structured and
efficient way of
administering justice.
MEHA THBT that  Emotional and  Family Code Necessity: it protects the Necessity: it allows  Nicolas and De  Impugning
impugning Mental being of Article rights of a child under P.D proper recognition of Vega Law legitimacy, you
legitimacy a child. 164,166,167,17 603 biological father Offices question the legality
should be  legitimacy of a 0,171 Preserves the moral view  https:// of marriage/ anak.
imprescriptible child born  Cabatania vs. of the family ndvlaw.com › if- prescriptability.
 adultery/ Court of Beneficiality:prevents Beneficiality: it preserves the-wife-giv...  what is the
bigamy Appeals (G.R. legal complications in moral and emotional  If the Wife prescription of
 Strict No. 124814, 21 child's documents being of a child Gives Birth to a impugning
imposition of October 2004 Practicality: it mitigates Practicality: it defers legal Child of legitimacy.
the Family code  Geronimo vs. costs in court and financial Another Man,  what is the
Santos (G.R. procedures(legal changes) responsibility of 'legally what is the prescription of
No. 197099, 28 registered father' Status of the impugning
September Child? - Law legitimacy.
2015) Firm in Metro
 Social Security Manila,
System vs. Philippines |
Aguas (G.R. No. Corporate,
165546, 27 Family, IP law,
February 2006) and Litigation
 Concepcion vs. Lawyers
 Court of  Lawphil
Appeals (G.R.  https://
No. 123450, 31 lawphil.net ›
August 2005) nov2021
 P.D 603 Article  G.R. No.
3 215370

PLDC 2023 MOTIONS: FOOD

ASSIGNED INFOSLIDE MOTION ISSUES RELEVANT LAWS AND ARGUMENTS SOURCES NOTES
JURISPRUDENCE
GOV OPP
MEHA In pursuing food  agricultural  RA 8178 , RA Necessity: it allows gain Necessity: sufficient  https://
security, THBT decline, over 7581 , RA for farmers and SME's supply of basic www.officialgaz
developing import 10068 commodities ette.gov.ph/
countries  lesser export ,  RA 7607 , RA prevents over constitutions/
should pursue filipino first 11203 importation of products allows easier trade of the-1987-
protectionist policy  Article XII: goods constitution-of-
policies, rather  imbalance in Section 2 1987 Beneficiality: promotes Beneficiality: in state of the-republic-of-
than trade economy, Constitution research and emergency, there is the-
liberalization, hoarding development of own sufficient supply of philippines/
for its  price control produce commodities the-1987-
agricultural constitution-of-
industries allows more export than opens trade with various the-republic-of-
import , avoids countries the-philippines-
oversupply and wastage article-xii/
Practicality: increased Practicality: lessens cost  FFTC
GDP, increased of products, lessens labor Agricultural
employment cost Policy Platform
 https://
ap.fftc.org.tw ›
article
 Republic Act
7607:
Empowering
Smallhold
Farmers in their
Economic
Endeavors
 Official Gazette
of the Republic
of the
Philippines
 https://
www.officialgaz
ette.gov.ph
NOREIN THW ban the  Republic Act No. GENERAL QUESTION
cultivation of 7581 ON PROPERTY RIGHTS,
 biofuel crops on LIMITATIONS
arable land that
could be used
to grow food
NOREIN As a general THW ban the    POLICE POWER
rule, plant patenting of (standards, requisites
varieties seeds and other application)
cannot be agricultural
patented products
under the
Intellectual
Property
Code.
However,
under the
Philippine
Plant Variety
Protection
Act of 2002,
the
inventors of
plant
varieties
that are a)
New; b)
Distinct; c)
Uniform;
and d)
Stable are
given the
right to
produce,
reproduce,
sell or offer
for sale,
condition for
the prupose
of
propagation,
export,
import, and
stocking

PLDC 2023 MOTIONS: FREE SPEECH

ASSIGNED INFOSLIDE MOTION ISSUES RELEVANT LAWS AND ARGUMENTS SOURCES NOTES
JURISPRIDENCE
GOV OPP
GAUDWIN THW make it
 illegal to   
disclose
someone’s
gender identity
without their
consent.
GAUDWIN 

GAUDWIN THBT drag   

shows that
incorporate
religious
elements are
part of the drag
performer's
freedom of
religion
GAUDWIN In 303 THR the
Creative LLC SCOTUS ruling
v. Elenis in 303 Creative
(2023), a LLC v Elenis
graphic
designer
named Lorie
Smith, who
owns 303
Creative
LLC, sought
to expand
her business
to offer
services for
couples
seeking
wedding
websites.
However,
she
objected to
providing
services for
same-sex
couples on
religious
grounds.
The case
raised
 questions
about
whether
applying
public
accommoda
tion laws to
compel an
artist to
create
content that
goes against
their beliefs
violates the
First
Amendment
. The Court
ruled in
favor of 303
Creative,
finding that
forcing the
artist to
create such
content
would
infringe on
her free
speech
rights and
religious
liberty.

PLDC 2023 MOTIONS: GENDER

ASSIGNED INFOSLIDE MOTION ISSUES RELEVANT LAWS AND ARGUMENTS SOURCES NOTES
JURISPRUDENCE
GOV OPP
MJ Ukraine has THW grant   
a system of asylum to
conscription Ukrainian
for transwomen
individuals fleeing from the
who are war between
legally Ukraine and
classified as Russia even if
male, even they have not
if they are completed their
 transitionin legal transition
g or have
transitioned
as trans
women.
Thus, unless
less
transwome
n have
completed
their legal
transition
(ie changing
their sex in
their birth
certificates
and other
documents),
they have to
be
conscripted
MJ THW allow 
transgender
children to
obtain gender
affirming care
without
parental
consent
MJ THBT crimes   
which are found
to be primarily
motivated by
the victim's
gender should
be punished
more severely.

PLDC 2023 MOTIONS: LABOR

ASSIGNED INFOSLIDE MOTION ISSUES RELEVANT LAWS AND ARGUMENTS SOURCES NOTES
JURISPRUDENCE
GOV OPP
SHEILA THBT the State  
should pay
women for their
yet-
uncompensated
household labor
SHEILA THW recognize  
sex work as a
legal profession
and provide
protections and
benefits similar
to other
professions.
MAE THW allow  High  Filipino First Necessity: (1) High Necessity: (1) High  Origins of the
CIELO foreign unemployment Policy or Article unemployment rate of unemployment rate of Filipino First
professionals to /underemploy XII, Section 10 Filipinos – Philippines is Filipinos – The country Policy
work in the ment rate of 1987 resource rich but cash must give priority to (https://www.b
Philippines even  Filipino first Constitution - poor, so it needs foreign Filipinos to boost worldonline.co
when the policy “…In the grant investors/professional employment, especially m/opinion/202
employer  Protectionism of rights, who are willing to use for graduates who 2/02/22/43163
cannot prove privileges, and their money to make the worked hard to earn a 8/origins-of-
that there is no concessions most out of our degree as a qualification the-filipino-
qualified filipino covering the resources. Filipinos can’t for jobs. (2) High poverty first-mentality-
for the job national afford to produce and rate among Filipinos - This 2/)
economy and maintain a is due to high  The Filipino
patrimony, the business/company of its underemployment and First Policy
State shall give own because they don’t unemployment. (3) Caused the
preference to have enough cash to Filipinos possess skills and Philippines to
qualified invest in our resources, so qualifications fit for most Fail
Filipinos.” they would rather work jobs – especially (https://correct
 Republic Act abroad, be graduates, which implies philippines.org/
No. 1180 (June underemployed or that there is no need to filipino_first_fai
1954, President unemployed because of allow foreign l/)
Ramon lack of skills (2) Low gross professionals without
Magsaysay) – domestic product of the considering qualified
“No person Philippines – Philippines Filipinos.
who is not a do not engage much in
citizen of the the free market.
Philippines and Protectionism only makes
no association, our country improperly
partnership, or exhaust all our products,
corporation the and makes it difficult to
capital of which market our products in
is not wholly the open market freely
owned by due to limitations such as
citizens of the taxes. (3) Limited access
Philippines, to high technology –
shall engage Open market means open
directly or access to opportunities
indirectly in the and new technologies
retail Beneficiality: (1) Beneficiality: (1)
business… Aggressive foreign Protection of Local Job
without investment have worked Market - Restricting
well for other ASEAN foreign professionals can
 license…” countries – It opens our
 Manila Prince country to global network
Hotel v. GSIS, and access to global
G.R. 122156, market. This would
Feb. 3, 1997 attract more foreign
 Alien investors and
Employment professionals. The reason
Regulations the 40-percent limit is so
(DOLE- Bureau debilitating is that as long
of Local as votes in a company are
Employment) pegged to the owner’s
 Foreign share, no foreign investor
Investments will have control over his
Act money. This is particularly
distressing in a
developing country such
as the Philippines, where
the economic climate is
uncertain and the risks
are already high.
Foreigners are unlikely to
invest millions of dollars if
they don’t have a say
over how the money will
be spent. (2) It promotes
productive business – Like
in Hong Kong, it forced all
its industries to compete
with the rest of the world
on their own merits and
on a completely equal
basis. Unlike
protectionism, Hong Kong
is free to do productive
business. There are no
foreign exchange
controls, and foreign
companies are free to
take their profits out if
they choose. Taxes are
stable and minimal, with
none on capital gains and
a flat tax on corporate
profits. (3) It brings
training and technology
transfer which increase
domestic productivity.
Foreign investments
directed at the domestic
help ensure that job
opportunities are
prioritized for Filipino
citizens, which can be
especially important in a
country with a significant
population and
employment challenges.
(2) Economic
independence – As a
country rich in resources,
we don’t have to rely on
foreign professionals. This
has been one of our
country’s goals since our
political independence.
(3) Skills development
and increase in domestic
productivity - This can
help improve the skills
and qualifications of the
Filipino workforce,
making them more
competitive in the global
job market in the long
run. (4) National Security:
In some cases, allowing
unrestricted access to
foreign professionals
might raise concerns
about national security,
particularly if the jobs in
question have access to
sensitive information or
critical infrastructure
(altho weak argument po
ito XD)
 market benefit
consumers in terms of
competitive prices, higher
quality of goods and
services, and wider
choices. It brings in badly
needed technology. It
grows exports. It creates
jobs, and it generally also
develops a host of
industries that pop up to
serve the new investors.
Practicality: (1) Filipinos Practicality: (1) The work
don’t have to resort to environment would be
working abroad because better for employment
foreign investors are the where there is majority of
ones who will come to qualified Filipinos with
the country, willing to the same culture and
invest their money and practices. (2) It is a much
open the employment to better way to exhaust
Filipinos. Filipino talents, than
opening the market to
foreign professionals
which would require
more comprehensive
assessments.

PLDC 2023 MOTIONS: WOMEN

ASSIGNED INFOSLIDE MOTION ISSUES RELEVANT LAWS AND ARGUMENTS SOURCES NOTES
JURISPRUDENCE
GOV OPP
MAE THBT courts   
CIELO should consider
the systematic
oppression
faced by
women as a
mitigating
factor in
criminal
sentences for
violent crimes
committed
against their
abusers, even if
they have not
been diagnosed
 with Battered
Woman
Syndrome
STEF THR the 
emphasis on
the law on rape
on biology (ie
emphasizing in
some cases that
the penis
should be erect,
that it should
touch or
penetrate
certain parts of
the vulva, etc)
STEF In 2022, the THW   
PCHR decriminalize
unequivocal abortion.
ly
articulated
its
recommend
ation for the
decriminaliz
ation of
abortion as
a priority
legislation
for the 19th
Congress.

PLDC 2023 MOTIONS: PEACE

ASSIGNED INFOSLIDE MOTION ISSUES RELEVANT LAWS AND ARGUMENTS SOURCES NOTES
JURISPRUDENCE
GOV OPP
JANELLA Autonomou THBT the   IHL Principles of 
s weapon international Distinction,
systems, as law should Proportionality,
the ICRC prohibit and Necessity
understands autonomous  Additional
them, are weapons Protocol II o the
any systems (AWS) Martens Clause
weapons even if they can
that select reduce
and apply casualties in
force to warfare.
 targets
without
human
intervention
.
JANELLA THW ban the 
use of private
military
contractors in
armed conflicts
JANELLA Konoha is a THBT, in order   
sovereign to suppress and
State that is dismantle the
being Akatsuki,
routinely Konoha's
attacked by military is
an Armed justified in
Non-State entering the
Actor territory of
named Amegakure
Akatsuki. without the
Konoha has latter's consent
reason to
believe that
Akatsuki has
its base of
operations
in
Amegakure,
another
sovereign
State.
Amegakure
has been
unable to
suppress
the Akatsuki
but has not
given any
material
support to
Akatsuki,
either.
Amegakure'
s population
also has
anti-Konoha
sentiment
and does
 not consent
to Konoha's
military
entering its
borders. For
the purpose
of this
debate,
assume that
Konoha and
Amegakure
are parties
to the UN
Charter and
Geneva
Conventions

PLDC 2023 MOTIONS: POVERTY TAXATION

ASSIGNED INFOSLIDE MOTION ISSUES RELEVANT LAWS AND ARGUMENTS SOURCES NOTES
JURISPRUDENCE
GOV OPP
GENESIS THW abolish   
the current
regime of
succession
(inheritance and
the
accompanying
estate taxes)
and instead,
institute a
system of
wealth
redistribution in
favor of the
poor.
GENESIS THS the global 
minimum
corporate
income tax
GENESIS For the THP a   
purposes of decentralized
this debate, income tax
a system for
"decentraliz individual
ed income income over a
tax sytstem" centralized
is one in income tax
which local system
government
units can set
their own
income tax
rates on
individuals.
This is
opposed to
a
centralized
income tax
system, in
which the
national
government
sets the
income tax
rates
nationwide