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    Judge Rodolfo Manzano sought Supreme Court authorization to accept appointment to the Ilocos Norte Provincial Committee on Justice. The Supreme Court ruled this appointment was unconstitutional. Provincial Committees on Justice perform administrative functions regulating individuals' conduct and affairs. However, the Constitution prohibits judges from serving in agencies with quasi-judicial or administrative functions. While judges can assist such committees, membership would violate the separation of powers and judicial independence.

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    Judge Rodolfo Manzano sought Supreme Court authorization to accept appointment to the Ilocos Norte Provincial Committee on Justice. The Supreme Court ruled this appointment was unconstitutional. Provincial Committees on Justice perform administrative functions regulating individuals' conduct and affairs. However, the Constitution prohibits judges from serving in agencies with quasi-judicial or administrative functions. While judges can assist such committees, membership would violate the separation of powers and judicial independence.

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    In Re Designation of Judge Manzano As Member of Ilocos Norte Provincial Committe On Justice (Case Digest)

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    IN RE: DESIGNATION OF JUDGE RODOLFO U.

    MANZANO AS MEMBER OF
    THE ILOCOS NORTE PROVINCIAL COMMITTEE ON JUSTICE. [A.M. No. 88-7-
    1861-RTC. October 5, 1988.]

    FACtS

    On July 4 1988, Judge Rodolfo U. Manzano Executive Judge, RTC, Bangui, Ilocos Norte, Branch
    19, submitted a letter to the Supreme Court indicating that by virtue of EO No. RF6-04 issued on
    June 21, 1988, he was appointed by then Ilocos Norte Gov. Rodolfo C. Fariñas, as a member of
    the Ilocos Norte Provincial Committee on Justice. The letter indicates that before Judge Manzano
    accepts the appointment and enter in the discharge of powers and duties as a member of the said
    committee, he deemed it fit to seek for the following:

    (1) SC’s authorization for Judge Manzano to accept the appointment and assume and
    discharge the powers and duties of the said position

    (2) SC’s consideration that such membership is neither violative of the Independence of the
    Judiciary nor a violation of Section 12, Article VIII, or of the second paragraph of Section 7, Article
    IX (B), both of the Constitution, and will not in any way amount to an abandonment of my present
    position as Executive Judge of Branch XIX, Regional Trial Court, First Judicial Region, and as a
    member of the Judiciary; and

    (3) SC’s consideration that such membership is part of the primary functions of an
    Executive Judge

    ISSU
    E

    WON the membership of Judge Manzano in Ilocos Norte Provincial Committee on Justice is
    constitutional

    RULING

    The Supreme Court ruled that Judge Manzano’s membership in the Ilocos Norte Provincial
    Committee on Justice is UNCONSTITUTIONAL

    An examination of Executive Order No. 856, as amended, reveals that Provincial/City Committees
    on Justice are created to ensure the speedy disposition of cases of detainees, particularly those
    involving the poor and indigent ones, thus alleviating jail congestion and improving local jail
    conditions. It is evident that such Provincial/City Committees on Justice perform administrative
    functions. Administrative functions are those which involve the regulation and control over the
    conduct and affairs of individuals for their own welfare and the promulgation of rules and
    regulations to better carry out the policy of the legislature or such as are devolved upon the
    administrative agency by the organic law of its existence.

    Under Section 12, Art. VIII, Constitution, members of the Supreme Court and other courts
    established by law shall not be designated to any agency performing quasi-judicial or
    administrative functions. Considering that membership of Judge Manzano in the Ilocos Norte
    Provincial Committee on Justice, which discharges administrative functions, will be in violation of
    the Constitution, the SC is constrained to deny his request. Even as non-members of
    Provincial/City Committees on Justice, RTC judges should render assistance to said Committees
    to help promote the laudable purposes for which they exist, but only when such assistance may
    be reasonably incidental to the fulfillment of their judicial duties

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