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Land Bank of the Philippines Vs. Judge Ernesto P. Pagayatan, 673 SCRA 535

LAND BANK OF THE PHILIPPINES, Complainant, versus JUDGE ERNESTO P. PAGAYATAN,Respondent.

A.M. No. RTJ-07-2089 [formerly OCA I.P.I. No. 07-2659-RTJ] | 2009-09-08

D E C I S I O N


CARPIO MORALES, J.:

By Decision of March 31, 2003, the Provincial Agrarian Reform Adjudicator (PARAD) of Occidental Mindoro ordered complainant Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) to pay Josefina S. Lubrica (Josefina) P71,634,027.30 as just compensation for the 431.1407-hectare portion of a rice and corn land in Sta. Lucia, Occidental Mindoro.

On the allegation that the PARAD disregarded the formula in Presidential Decree No. 27 and Executive Order No. 228, series of 1997, LBP filed on March 5, 2004 a petition for fixing of just compensation[1] before the Regional Trial Court (RTC) of San Jose, Occidental Mindoro.

Judge Ernesto...