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[5/5] In Re: Almacen vs. Yaptinchay

[5/5] IN THE MATTER OF PROCEEDING FOR DISCIPLINARY ACTION AGAINST ATTY. VICENTE RAUL ALMACEN in L-27654, ANTONIO H. CALERO vs. VIRGINIA Y. YAPTINCHAY.

G.R. No. L-27654 | 1970-02-18

More than this, however, consideration of whether or not he could be held liable for contempt for such post-litigation utterances and actuations, is here immaterial. By the tenor of our Resolution of November 17, 1967, we have confronted the situation here presented solely in so far as it concerns Atty. Almacen's professional identity, his sworn duty as a lawyer and his fitness as an officer of this Court, in the exercise of the disciplinary power inherent in our authority and duty to safeguard the morals and ethics of the legal profession and to preserve its ranks from the intrusions of unprincipled and unworthy disciples of the noblest...