38 Commission during its press conference held on 08 December 2016, is nonadversarial and fact-finding in nature, pursuant to Section 2, Rule 7 of the Omnibus Rules of the Commission. “The investigative and inquiry proceedings of the CHR is fact-finding in nature, and non-adversarial. Public inquiry shall generally be open to the public, transparent, and allows for the participation of affected parties and sectors.”158 2.90. At any rate, without disregarding the applicable decision of the Supreme Court on the matter, the petitioners entertain misgivings as to the respondents’ conclusion that the Honorable Commission is not a quasijudicial body, given the pertinent deliberations of the 1986 Constitutional Commission cited below: “MS. AQUINO: After all the amendments have been approved and with the very liberal posture of the committee in terms of the spiritual endowments of the article, do we still want to be confined to the definition of this commission as an administrative body? Surely, we must provide some kind of a conceptual cohesion between the powers and the nature of the commission. MR. SARMIENTO: I think Commissioner Aquino is now asking about the nature of the Commission on Human Rights because previously we said it was purely an administrative body. But because of its new functions, it has acquired a new feature, a new character, so it is now a quasi-judicial body. MS. AQUINO: So this would necessarily require a readjustment in the functions and the concepts of the commission. MR. SARMIENTO: Madam President, considering the adjustments we made, the new powers we added, the commission will no longer be a purely administrative body; it will be a quasi-judicial body. MS. AQUINO: Thank you, Madam President.”159 (Emphasis supplied) 2.91. The additional prosecutorial function given by the Congress to this Honorable Commission under Section 55 of R.A. 9372, otherwise known as the “Human Security Act of 2007,” as will be discussed below, seems to support its quasi-judicial function. 158 Section 2, Rule 7 of the Omnibus Rules of the Commission. Deliberations of the Constitutional Commission on the investigatory powers of the Commission on Human Rights, p. 777, op cit., pp. 152-153. 159