A hypocritical Supreme Court decision

The Supreme Court has found Judge Santiago Soriano of the La Union Municipal Trial Court guilty of gross inefficiency and gross ignorance of the law.

In a ten-page decision issued a few days ago, Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio wrote “the unreasonable delay in deciding cases and resolving incidents and motions [by the judge], and his failure to decide remaining cases before his compulsory retirement constitutes gross inefficiency which cannot be tolerated.”