Hacienda Luisita, the vast agricultural estate owned by the family of President Benigno Aquino III, was ordered by the Supreme Court to be distributed to tenant farmers.
The high court�s decision was unanimous, 14-0, in a 56-page resolution penned by Associate Justice Presbitero Velasco and promulgated on November 23, Wednesday.
The Supreme Court stressed in the resolution that �control over agricultural lands must always be in the hands of the farmers� and pointed out that allowing the 6,296 beneficiaries to remain stockholders would never allow them �gain control given the present proportion of shareholdings.�
The high court�s decision was unanimous, 14-0, in a 56-page resolution penned by Associate Justice Presbitero Velasco and promulgated on November 23, Wednesday.
The Supreme Court stressed in the resolution that �control over agricultural lands must always be in the hands of the farmers� and pointed out that allowing the 6,296 beneficiaries to remain stockholders would never allow them �gain control given the present proportion of shareholdings.�
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