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[3/3] IN RE Joaquin T. Borromeo

[3/3] IN RE JOAQUIN T. BORROMEO / Ex Rel. Cebu City Chapter of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines

A.M. No. 93-7-696-0 | 1995-02-21

To allow litigants to go beyond the Court's resolution and claim that the members acted "with deliberate bad faith" and rendered an "unjust resolution" in disregard or violation of the duty of their high office to act upon their own independent consideration and judgment of the matter at hand would be to destroy the authenticity, integrity and conclusiveness of such collegiate acts and resolutions and to disregard utterly the presumption of regular performance of official duty. To allow such collateral attack would destroy the separation of powers and undermine the role of the Supreme Court as the final arbiter of all justiciable disputes....