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Bartolome vs. De Borja

ROLANDO BARTOLOME, complainant, vs. HON. JUAN DE BORJA, District Judge, Branch XX, Court of First Instance, Manila, respondent.

A.M. No. 1096-CFI | 1976-05-31

R E S O L U T I O N

FERNANDO, J:

Administrative charges usually arise from a deep sense of grievance on the part of complainants. They are often, as a result, made to appear much graver than the facts warrant. Even with due allowance made for that tendency, what is evident on a most cursory appraisal of these cases against respondent Judge Juan de Borja of the Court of First Instance of Manila, is that no curb was placed on such propensity to exaggerate matters. The language of hyperbole was employed in the first, he was accused by Rolando Bartolome, who identifies himself as a labor regulation officer in the Department of Labor, of...