Article: Supreme Court intensifies clean-up drive in judiciary.(Main News)

Byline: REY G. PANALIGAN

The Supreme Court has intensified its drive against dishonesty, incompetence, and inefficiency in the judiciary by treating an administrative cases against its members and court personnel who are lawyers as disbarment proceedings that may result simultaneously in their dismissal from their posts and removal as members of the bar.

Chief Justice Hilario G. Davide Jr. said that the automatic conversion of an administrative case will be done if the violations raised are also grounds for disbarment, like violation of the Lawyer's Oath, the Code of Professional Responsibility, and the Canons of Legal Ethics.

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