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By Jomar Canlas, Reporter
COURT of Appeals Presiding
Justice Ruben Reyes has a challenge: name the Dirty Dozen in the
appellate court and spare the innocent.
In an interview with The Manila
Times, Reyes said that in order to push for the cleansing of the
judiciary—and to be just to innocent magistrates—the names of
the so-called Dirty Dozen or the “12 Most Corrupt Justices” must
be disclosed.
“I am challenging and
encouraging the litigants and the lawyers to come out in the open
and to name names. This is the only way to clear the name of the
innocent justices who are clean and proper in their ways,” Reyes
said.
Reyes said that some of the CA
justices were hurt by the reports that there were a dozen justices
in the appellate court who are engaged in corruption.
The Chief CA Magistrate said that
he is now pushing for reforms in the appellate court to dissuade
issues that CA is becoming a corrupt office.
Part of this reform is the
putting up of a “One Stop Shop” or a place where the litigants
and lawyers will file their pleadings and other documents in a
building near the CA gate which will put a stop to the practice of
roaming around in the CA premises.
Justice Reyes has opened the
“One Stop Shops.”
“The One Stop Shop will put a
stop to the practice of roaming around in the CA premises. All of
their transactions will be done here,” he said.
The Manila Times learned that the
complaint against the Dirty Dozen filed by former Judge Florentino
Floro of Malabon Regional Trial Court was sent to the Supreme
Court’s Office of the Court Administrator and the Office of the
Ombudsman.
Floro lodged charges of Gross
Misconduct, Gross Ignorance of the Law, Manifest Undue Interest,
Questionable Temporary Restraining Orders, Grave Violations of
Republic Act 6713 or Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards against
the members of the Dirty Dozen.
Floro is also asking the Court to
conduct a Judicial Audit and Preventive Suspension the members of
the Dirty Dozen. The complaint is asking the Court to order
Ombudsman Gutierrez and The Times to be issued subpoenas and to
submit the “Ombudsman Watchlist” which contain the names of the
Dirty Dozen.
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