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    in Re Manzano, A.M. No. 88-7-1861

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    RTC Judge Manzano requested authorization from the Supreme Court to accept appointment as a member of the Ilocos Norte Provincial Committee on Justice, which performs administrative functions like receiving complaints against officials and recommending legal revisions. The Supreme Court denied the request and ruled that Judge Manzano was ineligible as the Constitution prohibits members of the judiciary from designation to agencies that perform quasi-judicial or administrative functions.

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    RTC Judge Manzano requested authorization from the Supreme Court to accept appointment as a member of the Ilocos Norte Provincial Committee on Justice, which performs administrative functions like receiving complaints against officials and recommending legal revisions. The Supreme Court denied the request and ruled that Judge Manzano was ineligible as the Constitution prohibits members of the judiciary from designation to agencies that perform quasi-judicial or administrative functions.

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    RTC Judge Manzano requested authorization from the Supreme Court to accept appointment as a member of the Ilocos Norte Provincial Committee on Justice, which performs administrative functions like receiving complaints against officials and recommending legal revisions. The Supreme Court denied the request and ruled that Judge Manzano was ineligible as the Constitution prohibits members of the judiciary from designation to agencies that perform quasi-judicial or administrative functions.

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    in Re Manzano, A.M. No. 88-7-1861

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    RTC Judge Manzano requested authorization from the Supreme Court to accept appointment as a member of the Ilocos Norte Provincial Committee on Justice, which performs administrative functions like receiving complaints against officials and recommending legal revisions. The Supreme Court denied the request and ruled that Judge Manzano was ineligible as the Constitution prohibits members of the judiciary from designation to agencies that perform quasi-judicial or administrative functions.

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    5. In re: Manzano, A.M. No.

    88-7-1861-RTC (Resolution), [October 5, 1988],


    248 PHIL 487-496)

    FACTS:
    RTC Judge Manzano was designated as a member of the Ilocos Norte
    Provincial Committee on Justice.

    Among the functions of the Committee are —


     Receive complaints against any apprehending officer, jail warden, fiscal
    or judge who may be found to have committed abuses in the discharge of his
    duties and refer the same to proper authority for appropriate action;
     Recommend revision of any law or regulation which is believed
    prejudicial to the proper administration of criminal justice.

    He requested the SC to issue a resolution authorizing him to accept the


    appointment and discharge the powers and duties attached to the position.

    ISSUE:
    Whether Judge Manzano is eligible to assume the role as a member of the Ilocos
    Norte Provincial Committee on Justice?

    RULING:
    No.

    The 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 the Constitution, the members of the Supreme Court and other courts
    established by law shall not be designated to any agency performing quasi-
    judicial or administrative functions (Section 12, Art. VIII, Constitution).
    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 Court is constrained to deny his request.

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