Kapampangan lawyer opposes SC nominees
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO — A prominent Kapampangan lawyer and constitutionalist is opposing the appointment of four justices of the Court of Appeals (CA) to the Supreme Court (SC).
Lawyer Eligio P. Mallari, former commissioner
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on human rights and now incumbent president of the Vanguard of the Philippine Constitution, Inc., is opposing the appointment of CA Presiding Justice Andres B. Reyes, Jr. and Associate Justices Apolinario D. Bruselas, Jr., Noel G. Tijam and Japar B. Dimaampao to the High Court.
Two positions in the SC will be left vacant by the retirement of Justices Jose P. Perez and Arturo D. Brion this month.
Mallari said he is charging the four CA justices of gross ignorance of the law, gross misconduct and gross dishonest stemming from the CA case docketed as CA G.R. SP No. 106838.
He said the four justices are responsible for the unlawful delay for more than eight years now in the resolution of the cases involving the more than 130 hectares covered by Lot 3664 and the 6,338 meter Lot 3843.
Mallari said that since 1980, he and his wife Marcelina have been religiously paying all the real property taxes or a period of 36 years, won all nine cases involving the two lots which were decided with finality in their favor.
As of November 25, 2008, the Philippine National Bank has no more rights and interests on the two lots by virtue of a decision rendered by Judge Evangeline C. Castillo-Marigomen of the Regional Trial Court Branch 101 of Quezon City which affirmed with finality and partial implementation of an earlier final resolution rendered by Judge Maria Luisa Quijano-Padilla of the RTC Branch 215 in the same city for the full implementation of the writ of execution dated May 26,2008.
Mallari said the subsequent amended decision and resolution by the four justices were void.
“As such, Justices Andres B. Reyes Jr., Associate Justices Apoliario D. Bruselas, Jr. Noel G. Tijam and Japar Dimaampao are not possessed of competence, integrity, probity and independence pursuant to the provisions of the Constitution under Article VIII, Section 7,” he said.
Mallari urged President Duterte not to appoint the four justices to the SC.
Mallari is a resident of the city and is a former legal adviser and ally of the late Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr.