CEBU JUDGE SACKED 3/27/2013
Supreme Court slams slow action on cases, repeated lapses
A 63-year-old judge in Cebu City and her clerk of court have been fired by the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court (SC) ordered the judge dismissed from service for failing to resolve about 4,000 cases on time and mismanaging court records, among other infractions.
Municipal Trial Court in Cities (MTCC) Judge Rosabella Tormis of Branch 4 briefly reported for office yesterday, but left soon after.
A court employee said the judge was attending to her ailing husband who is confined in a private hospital in Cebu City.
A posting in her Facebook account yesterday carried this observation: “Being a good person, bad happened.”
Tormis was found guilty of “gross inefficiency, violation of SC rules, directives, and circulars, as well as gross ignorance of the law.”
Her clerk of court, lawyer Reynaldo Teves, was also dismissed from service for two counts of simple neglect of duty.
Both forfeit “all benefits and priviledges, except accrued leave credits” and are barred from being rehired in any government office.
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How Many Judges are Like This nowadays?