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Gualberto J. De La Llana, et al. Vs. Manuel Alba, et al. [SEPARATE OPINION, ERICTA, J., concurring]

GUALBERTO J. DE LA LLANA, Presiding Judge, Branch II of the City Court of Olongapo, ESTANISLAO L. CESA, JR., FIDELA Y. VARGAS, BENJAMIN C. ESCOLANGO, JUANITO C. ATIENZA, MANUEL REYES ROSAPAPAN, JR., VIRGILIO E. ACIERTO, and PORFIRIO AGUILLON AGUILA, petitioners vs. MANUEL ALBA, Minister of Budget, FRANCISCO TANTUITCO, Chairman, Commission on Audit, and RICARDO PUNO, Minister of Justice, respondents. [SEPARATE OPINION, ERICTA, J., concurring]

G.R. No. 57883 | 1982-03-12

ERICTA, J., concurring:

I concur in the view that Judiciary reorganization law is not unconstitutional. It does not violate the principle of security of tenure of Judges. 

The constitution grants to the Batasang Pambansa the power to create courts inferior to the Supreme Court (Article X, Section 1). All existing inferior courts were created by law. No law is irrepealable. The power to create an office includes the power to abolish the same. (Urgelio vs. Osmeña, 9 SCRA 317; Maza vs. Ochave, 20 SCRA 142). 

Security of tenure cannot be invoked when there is no removal of a public officer or employee but an abolition of his office....