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Farres vs. Judge Diaz De Rivera, Jr.

FREDDIE J. FARRES AND ORWEN L. TRAZO, COMPLAINANTS, VS. JUDGE EDGARDO B. DIAZ DE RIVERA, JR., BRANCH 10, REGIONAL TRIAL COURT, LA TRINIDAD, BENGUET, RESPONDENT.

A.M. No. RTJ-16-2462 (Formerly OCA IPI No. 14-4311-RTJ) | 2019-10-14

D E C I S I O N
 
INTING, J.:
 
"We must once more impress upon the members of the Judiciary their sworn duty of administering justice without undue delay under the time-honored precept that justice delayed, is justice denied. The present clogged condition of the courts' docket in all levels of our judicial system cannot be cleared unless each and every judge earnestly and painstakingly takes it upon himself to comply faithfully with the mandate of the law. No less important than the speedy termination of hearings and trials of cases is the promptness and dispatch in the making of decisions and judgment, the signing thereof...