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Re:Letter Of Executive Judge Salvador Abad Santos

RE: LETTER OF ExECUTIVE JUDGE SALVADOR S. ABAD SANTOS / EXECUTIVE JUDGE SALVADOR S. ABAD SANTOS, complainant, JUDGE SALVADOR P. DE GUZMAN, JR, respondent.

A.M. No. 96-1-05-RTC | 2003-01-28

D E C I S I O N

MENDOZA, J.:

This case originated from a letter,[1] dated October 13, 1995, which Executive Judge Salvador Abad Santos had sent to then Chief Justice Andres R. Narvasa. In his letter, Judge Abad Santos reported that Judge Salvador P. de Guzman, Jr. of Branch 142 of the Makati Regional Trial Court (RTC) had decided Civil Case No. 90-659 of that court and had later ordered the execution of his decision pending appeal despite the fact that at that time he (Judge De Guzman, Jr.) was on detail to the RTC of Manila and his sala had been taken over by Judge Gil P. Fernandez. The civil case had been filed by Alexander Van Twest,...