CIRCULAR
NO. 53-2000
TO: THE COURT
OF APPEALS, SANDIGANBAYAN, COURT OF TAX APPEALS, REGIONAL TRIAL COURTS,
SHARI'A DISTRICT COURTS, METROPOLITAN TRIAL COURTS, MUNICIPAL TRIAL
COURTS
IN CITIES, MUNICIPAL TRIAL COURTS, MUNICIPAL CIRCUIT TRIAL COURTS,
SHARI'A
CIRCUIT TRIAL COURTS AND THE INTEGRATED
BAR OF THE PHILIPPINES
SUBJECT: SUSPENSION
OF ATTY. AMADO D. ORDEN FROM THE PRACTICE OF LAW FOR ONE (1) YEAR.
Quoted hereunder
for the information and guidance of all concerned are pertinent
portions
of the Third Division of this Court, in Administrative Case No. 4646
entitled
"Rosita S. Torres vs. Atty. Amado D. Orden" dated April
6, 2000,
to wit:chanroblesvirtuallawlibrary
"xxx
"Respondent's failure
to submit the brief to the appellate court within the reglementary
period
entails disciplinary action. Not only is it a dereliction of duty to
his
client but also to the court as well. His shortcomings before the Court
of Appeals is, in itself, already deplorable but to repeat the same
infraction
before this Court constitutes negligence of contumacious proportions.
It
is even worse that the respondent has attempted to mitigate his
liability
by professing ignorance of appellate procedures, a matter that, too, is
inexcusable.cralaw:red
"xxx
"WHEREFORE, this
Court so finds respondent Atty. Amado Orden remiss in his sworn duty to
his client, and to the Bar and the Bench as well and imposes upon him
the
penalty of SUSPENSION from the practice of law for the period of one
(1)
year immediately effective upon his receipt of this judgment.cralaw:red
xxx"
Copy of the said
decision was received by Atty. Orden on May 11, 2000.cralaw:red
September 6, 2000.
[Sgd.]
ALFREDO
L. BENIPAYOCourt
Administrator
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