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Wilson B. Tan Vs. Jesus F. Hernando

WILSON B. TAN, Petitioner, versus JESUS F. HERNANDO, Respondent.

A.M. No. P-08-2501 | 2009-08-28

D E C I S I O N


BERSAMIN, J.:

All Judiciary employees are expected to be exemplars of fairness and honesty in both their official conduct and their personal actuations, including their business and commercial transactions. The community sees them in no other light. Thus, we insist upon this standard in dealing with the administrative complaint against an employee in the Office of the Clerk of Court of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental.

The antecedents follow.

By his letter-complaint dated July 5, 1999,[1] complainant Wilson Tan charged respondent Jesus F. Hernando, Clerk IV, with dishonesty, moral...