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Office of the Court Administrator vs Filomeno Pascual

OFFICE OF THE COURT ADMINISTRATOR, petitioner, vs. JUDGE FILOMENO PASCUAL, respondent.

A.M. No. MTJ-93-783 | 1996-07-29

HERMOSISIMA, JR., J.:


Intimating as to what the ideals of a good judge should be, Sir Francis Bacon wants judges "to remember that their jus dicere and not jus dare, to interpret law, and not to make law or give law."

They ought to be "more revered than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, INTEGRITY is their portion and proper virtue. 1

The Constitution and the statutes, however, limit the legal qualifications of judges to only three bare essentials citizenship, age and experience. The virtues of probity, honesty, temperance, impartiality and integrity, most often used to measure an aspirant to the bench, lose...