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Equitable PCI Bank, Inc. vs. Judge Celso D. Lavina.

EQUITABLE PCI BANK, INC., Complainant, versus JUDGE CELSO D. LAVINA, Presiding Judge of Branch 71, Regional Trial Court of PASIG CITY, Respondent.

A.M. No. RTJ-06-2001 (formerly OCA I.P.I. No. 05-2234-RTJ) | 2006-08-16

THIRD DIVISION

RESOLUTION 

QUISUMBING, J.: 

For our resolution is the complaint of Equitable PCI Bank charging respondent Judge Celso D. Laviña, presiding judge of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 71, Pasig City, with gross misconduct, conduct unbecoming a judge and member of the bar, gross ignorance of the law and procedure, and knowingly rendering an unjust judgment and order. 

This case stems from what complainant Equitable PCI Bank alleges is visible bias by respondent in favor of the plaintiffs in Civil Cases Nos. 70098 and 68287, and hostility against the bank. However, since respondent's acts in Civil Case No. 68287 are...