THE APPARENT unwillingness of Supreme Court magistrates to go through the traditional public interviews, revealed in an exclusive report by The Manila Times on Monday, came as a bit of a surprise; the public interviews are a rare window for citizens to peek into the judicial ethos of applicants for the highest judiciary position of the land.

As explained by Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra, the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC), the constitutional body that vets judiciary applicants, bowed to the unanimous resolution of the Supreme Court en banc to waive the interviews for associate justices who have sat at the tribunal for at least five years.

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