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Re: Final report on the Judicial Audit conducted at the RTC Br. 67, Paniqui, Tarlac

RE: FINAL REPORT ON THE JUDICIAL AUDIT CONDUCTED AT THE REGIONAL TRIAL COURT, BR. 67, PANIQUI, TARLAC.

A.M. No. 06-7-414-RTC | 2007-10-19

D E C I S I O N


Tinga, J.:

This administrative matter arose from the judicial audit and physical inventory of cases conducted on 20-24 June 2005 at the Regional Trial Court (RTC) of Paniqui, Tarlac, Branch 67, then presided by Judge Cesar M. Sotero who compulsorily retired on 23 February 2006.

As of audit date, the RTC had a total caseload of 523 cases consisting of 309 criminal cases and 214 civil cases, including 33 unaccounted LRC cases. The Audit Team made the following observations:

In the conduct of the audit, the Team used the case numbers in the Docket Books from January 2003 up to [the] present as reference in the...