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Office of the Court Administrator Vs. Judge Anatalio S. Necessario, et al.

OFFICE OF THE COURT ADMINISTRATOR, Petitioner, vs. JUDGE ANATALIO S. NECESSARIO Branch 2; JUDGE GIL R. ACOSTA, Branch 3; JUDGE ROSABELLA M. TORMIS, Branch 4; and JUDGE EDGEMELO C. ROSALES, Branch 8; all of MTCC Cebu City; CELESTE P. RETUYA, Clerk III, MTCC Branch 6, Cebu City; CORAZON P. RETUYA, Court Stenographer, MTCC, Branch 6, Cebu City; RHONA F. RODRIGUEZ, Administrative Officer I, Office of the Clerk of Court, Regional Trial Court (RTC) Cebu City; EMMA D. VALENCIA, Court Stenographer III, RTC, Branch 18, Cebu City; MARILOU CABANEZ, Court Stenographer, MTCC, Branch 4, Cebu City; DESIDERIO S. ARANAS, Process Server, MTCC, Branch 3, Cebu City; REBECCA ALESNA, Court Interpreter, MTCC, Branch 1, Cebu City; and HELEN MONGGAYA, Court Stenographer, MTCC, Branch 4, Cebu City. Respondents.

A.M. No. MTJ-07-1691 | 2013-04-02


ENBANC

DECISION 

PER CURIAM: 

This Court has long held that “[the] administration of justice is circumscribed with a heavy burden of responsibility. It requires that everyone involved in its dispensation - from the presiding judge to the lowliest clerk - live up to the strictest standards of competence, honesty, and integrity in the public service.”1

THE CASE 

This is an administrative case that stemmed from the 6 July 2007 Memorandum of the Office of the Court Administrator (OCA).2The judicial audit team created by the OCA reported alleged irregularities in the solemnization of marriages in...