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2008-09-22 |
PER CURIAM |
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| The Court finds this profferred excuse unsatisfactory. Public servants are mandated to uphold public interest over personal needs.[17] Certainly, no less can be expected from those involved in the administration of justice. Everyone, from the highest official to the lowest rank employee must live up to the strictest norms of probity and integrity in the public service. Safekeeping of public and trust funds is essential to an orderly administration of justice.[18] Personal problems cannot justify the misuse by any court employee of judiciary funds in their custody.[19] Such are government funds, and public servants have absolutely no right to use them for their own purposes. | |||||
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2008-08-11 |
AUSTRIA-MARTINEZ, J. |
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| The safekeeping of public funds entrusted to court personnel is essential to an orderly administration of justice and no claim of good faith can override the mandatory nature of the circulars designed to promote full accountability of government funds.[27] | |||||