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[A.M. No. 00-2-05-SC.February 22, 2000]

IN THE MATTER OF CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS IN DECISIONS AND SIGNED RESOLUTIONS

EN BANC

Gentlemen:

Quoted hereunder, for your information, is a resolution of this Court dated FEB 22 2000 .

A.M. No. 00-2-05-SC(In the Matter of Correction of Typographical Errors in Decisions and Signed Resolutions.)

Inadvertent typographical errors in decisions and signed resolutions he Court may occur every now and then.As these decisions and signed resolutions are published and preserved for posterity in the Philippine reports, the Supreme Court Reports Annotated, and other publications, as well as in the Supreme Court Website, the need for making them free of typographical errors cannot be overemphasized.Care should, therefore, be taken in proofreading them before they are submitted for promulgation/or publication.

Nevertheless, should typographical errors be discovered after the promulgation and/or publication of decisions and resolutions, the following procedure should be observed to the end that unauthorized corrections, alterations, or intercalations in what are public and official documents are made:

1.In case of decisions and signed resolutions with the authors' names indicated, the Reporter and the Chief of the Management information Systems Office of the Supreme Court should secure the authority of the author concerned to make the necessary correction of typographical errors.In case of per curiam decisions and unsigned resolutions authority to make corrections should be secured from the Chief Justice.

2.The correction of typographical errors shall be made by crossing out the incorrect word and inserting by hand the appropriate correction immediately above the cancelled word.Such correction shall be authenticated by the author by signing his initials immediately below the correction.In per curiam decisions and unsigned resolutions, and in cases re the author is no longer a member of the Court, the authentication be made by the Chief Justice.

3. The Reporter and the Chief of the Management Information Systems Office shall submit to the Court, through the Clerk of Court, a quarterly report of decisions and resolutions in which corrections have been made.The Clerk of Court must thereafter include the report in the agenda the Court en banc.

This resolution takes effect immediately.

Promulgated this 22nd day of February 2000.

Very truly yours,

LUZVIMINDA D. PUNO
Clerk of Court

(Sgd.) MA. LUISA D. VILLARAMA

Asst. Clerk of Court

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