A.C. No. 288-J – 156 Phil. 402 – 57 SCRA 403 – Legal Ethics – Lawyer owes fidelity to the courts Judicial Ethics – Errors in Judgments – Judges Not Liable If Malice/Gross Ignorance is Absent Atty. Gaudencio Urbina and Atty. Vedasto Gesmundo lost a case filed in the sala […]
Judicial Ethics
A.M. No. P-07-2404 – 564 Phil. 620 – 540 SCRA 42 – Legal Ethics – Judicial Ethics – Simple Neglect – Civil Service Political Law – Administrative Law – Civil Service – Tardiness and Absences An anonymous letter-complaint was sent by the employees of the Supreme Court based in Davao […]
A.M. No. 227-RTJ – 145 SCRA 1 – Legal Ethics – Judicial Ethics – Liability of Judges for Erroneous Decisions There are two administrative cases against Judge Ildefonso Bleza here. Case 1 In 1981, a shooting incident in a cockpit occurred where Gregorio Abad, a colonel escaped death. In that […]
A.M. No. 2026-CFI – 110 SCRA 388 – Civil Law – Succession – Will Should be Written in a Language Known to the Testator Remedial Law – Special Proceedings – Rule 76 – Grounds for Disallowing Will – Will not Duly Executed; Extrinsic Validity Legal Ethics – Judicial Ethics – […]
A.M. No. 133-J – 114 SCRA 77 – Political Law – Abrogation of Political Laws – Change of Sovereign Legal Ethics – Judicial Ethics – Property Dealings of Judges Involving a Litigant’s Property Civil Law – Law on Sales – Contract of Sale – Subject Matter Under Litigation In 1963, […]