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2014-03-18 |
PER CURIAM |
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| The speedy disposition of cases in our courts is a primary aim of the Judiciary, so that the ends of justice may not be compromised and the Judiciary will be true to its commitment to provide litigants their constitutional right to a speedy trial and a speedy disposition of their cases.[40] The Code of Judicial Conduct mandates that a judge administers justice impartially and without delay.[41] Under the New Code of Judicial Conduct for the Philippine Judiciary,[42] a judge is obliged to perform all judicial duties, including the delivery of reserved decisions, efficiently, fairly and with reasonable promptness.[43] To comply with his obligation, he must display such interest in his office which stops not at the minimum of the day's labors fixed by law, and which ceases not at the expiration of official seasons, but which proceeds diligently on holidays and by artificial light and even into vacation periods. Only thereby can he do his part in the great work of speeding up the administration of justice and rehabilitating the Judiciary in the estimation of the people.[44] Any unjustified failure to decide a case within the reglementary period constitutes gross inefficiency that deserves the imposition of the proper administrative sanctions. Hence, decision-making is his primordial and most important duty as a member of the Bench. | |||||
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2005-02-17 |
SANDOVAL-GUTIERREZ, J. |
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| That Judge Salcedo presided over two (2) court branches is not an excuse for his failure to promptly decide or dispose of the cases.[13] For a judge should at all times remain in full control of the proceedings in his sala. Court management is ultimately his responsibility.[14] Canon 3, Rule 3.09[15] of the Code of Judicial Conduct requires judges to manage their dockets in such a manner that the work of their courts is accomplished with reasonable dispatch.[16] As court manager, he is expected to keep his own record of cases and to note therein their status so that he may act on them accordingly and promptly.[17] | |||||
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2003-09-23 |
VITUG, J. |
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| Decision-making is a primordial and by far the most important duty of a member of the bench.[4] The Code of Judicial Conduct mandates that a judge must dispose of the court's business promptly and to act on cases pending before him within the prescribed periods therefor.[5] A judge's failure to observe time prescriptions for the rendition of judgments in derogation of an otherwise speedy administration of justice constitutes a ground for administrative sanction.[6] The Court is not unaware of, and certainly not without sympathy to, the heavy caseload of most judges. Thus, as it has so often stated in a number of occasions, all that a judge has to do is to request for additional time to decide cases, and such requests, if meritorious, are almost invariably granted by the Court.[7] | |||||