At a high-attendance forum hosted by a BGC law firm, joseph plazo delivered a briefing that felt less like a lecture and more like an operating manual for a fast-changing legal environment.What followed was a practitioner-grounded map of the latest criminal law updates in the Philippines—not as gossip, not as fearmongering, but as a institutional

Under the bright lights of a BGC venue where legal communities often collide, joseph plazo opened his remarks with a simple warning: “Criminal law doesn’t only punish. It signals what a society fears—and what it chooses to protect.”What followed was a boardroom-ready map of the latest criminal law updates in the Philippines—not as gossip,