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SOLIDBANK vs. Dionisio M. Capistrano

THE CONSOLIDATED BANK AND TRUST CORPORATION (SOLIDBANK), complainant, vs. HON. DIONISIO M. CAPISTRANO, Presiding Judge of the Regional Trial Court, National Capital Judicial Region, Branch CXVI, Pasay City, defendant.

A.M. No. R-66-RTJ | 1988-03-18

R E S O L U T I O N


PER CURIAM:

The verified administrative complaint here charges Regional Trial Judge Hon. Dionisio N. Capistrano with gross ignorance of the law, resulting in inefficiency, partiality, malice and/or serious misconduct, and knowingly rendering both an unjust interlocutory order and an unjust judgment. Assailed are the respondent's several actuations in an action culminating in his rendering judgment awarding damages which this Court, on review, found to be "completely unfair and unwarranted." 1

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