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Office of the Court Administrator vs. Judge Napoleon V. Dilag

Office of the Court Administrator, Petitioner, versus JUDGE Napoleon V. Dilag (Ret.), Respondent.

A.M. No. RTJ-05-1914 (Formerly Adm. Matter No. OCA IPI No. 02-4-249-RTC) | 2005-09-30

SECOND DIVISION

D E C I S I O N 

PUNO, J.: 

The administrative case at bar arose from the judicial audit and inventory of pending cases conducted by the Office of the Court Administrator (OCA) in Branch 15 of the Regional Trial Court of Naic, Cavite from March 4 to 8, 2002.[1] Respondent was the presiding judge of the court until his compulsory retirement on March 13, 2002. 

The judicial audit revealed the following findings: 

The court presided by the respondent had 468[2] pending cases at the time of investigation. Of these cases, respondent judge failed to decide eleven (11) civil cases within the ninety-day period;...