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Genato vs. Atty. Mallari

ANTONIO X. GENATO, COMPLAINANT, VS. ATTY. ELIGIO P. MALLARI, RESPONDENT.

A.C. No. 12486 | 2019-10-15

DECISION
 
PER CURIAM:
 
PREFATORY
 
Lawyers are disciplined, as are judges and court personnel, on the totality of the circumstances attendant to the case being heard. In such administrative proceedings, the Court is not limited by rules and principles applied in a mechanical fashion. If justice so demands, we treat the parties' pleadings with due regard to what we really are, a small community where everyone knows or ought to know each one else. A disciplinary case is not accurately described as a straitjacket worn beneath judicial robes. More subtly but poignantly, cases of this type is like asking, "Who has seen the...