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Arnado vs Buban

ATTY. AUDIE C. ARNADO, Complainant, versus JUDGE MARINO S. BUBAN, Tacloban City, Respondent.

A.M. No. MTJ-04-1543 [Formerly OCA-IPI-02-1259-MTJ] | 2004-05-31

D E C I S I O N


Tinga, J.:



Ignorantia judicis est calamitas innocentis.[1]



As judges are front-liners in the dispensation of justice, it is imperative they keep abreast with the changes and developments in law and jurisprudence. As judges are apostles of the law, their ignorance of the law is impermissible and inexcusable.

On June 5, 2002, the Office of the Court Administrator received the verified Complaint of Attorney Audie Arnado, accusing respondent Judge Marino S. Buban of gross ignorance of the law amounting to judicial incompetence, as well as manifest partiality and bias, prejudgment and grossly oppressive and abusive...