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Jose Teofilo T. Mercado, et al. vs. Security Bank Corporation

JOSE TEOFILO T. MERCADO and MA. AGNES R. MERCADO, Petitioners, vs. SECURITY BANK CORPORATION, Respondent.

G.R. No. 160445 | 2006-02-16



EN BANC
R E S O L U T I O N 

SANDOVAL GUTIERREZ, J.: 

The dignity of the Court can never be protected where infraction of ethics meets with complacency rather than punishment. The people should not be given cause to break faith that a magistrate is the epitome of honor amongst men. To preserve its dignity, a court of justice should not yield to the assaults of disrespect.[1] 

Incidental to the present petition for review on certiorari is the contempt proceedings against petitioner Jose Teofilo T. Mercado arising from his letter dated October 18, 2004, insinuating that: (1) the ponente succumbed to the "tremendous pressure"...