Honorific-Prefix: | The Honorable |
Serafin R. Cuevas | |
Office: | 106th Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines |
Appointer: | Ferdinand Marcos |
Office2: | Secretary of Justice |
Predecessor2: | Silvestre H. Bello III |
President2: | Joseph Estrada |
Successor2: | Artemio Tuquero |
Birth Date: | June 25, 1928 |
Birth Place: | Bacoor, Cavite, Philippine Islands |
Death Place: | Manila, Philippines |
Alma Mater: | University of the Philippines University of Manila |
Profession: | Lawyer Jurist Judge |
Term Start: | June 1, 1984 |
Term End: | April 16, 1986 |
Term Start2: | July 1, 1998 |
Term End2: | February 15, 2000 |
Serafin Romero Cuevas (June 25, 1928 – February 9, 2014) was a Filipino lawyer and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines appointed during the government of Ferdinand Marcos.
Cuevas was born on June 25, 1928, in Bacoor, Cavite.[1] He went to Las Piñas Elementary School for his elementary education and to the University of Manila for his secondary education. He obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of the Philippines in 1952 and passed the bar examination the same year.
Cuevas started his career as a professorial lecturer at the College of Law of the University of the Philippines and at the Institute of Law of the Far Eastern University. Afterwards, he became an Assistant Fiscal of the City of Manila and then a Judge to the Court of First Instance.
Before his appointment as an associate justice to the Supreme Court of the Philippines on May 31, 1984, he was an associate justice of the Intermediate Appellate Court.
In 2012, Justice Cuevas was the lead counsel of the defense panel against the impeachment of former Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona.[2]
Justice Cuevas died on February 9, 2014.[3] He was 85 years old.