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Atty. Ireneo L. Torres and Mrs. Natividad Celestino filed a complaint against Atty. Jose Concepcion Javier for including derogatory statements in his pleadings that were false and malicious. Atty. Javier claimed the statements were made in anger because his wife was involved in the legal dispute and that such statements are covered by legal privilege. However, the court found that including statements made from ill feelings and anger are not covered by legal privilege. While some leeway is given for relevant statements in pleadings, the offensive remarks made by Atty. Javier were unwarranted and violated the dignity of the legal profession. Therefore, Atty. Javier could be held administratively liable for his

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Atty. Ireneo L. Torres and Mrs. Natividad Celestino filed a complaint against Atty. Jose Concepcion Javier for including derogatory statements in his pleadings that were false and malicious. Atty. Javier claimed the statements were made in anger because his wife was involved in the legal dispute and that such statements are covered by legal privilege. However, the court found that including statements made from ill feelings and anger are not covered by legal privilege. While some leeway is given for relevant statements in pleadings, the offensive remarks made by Atty. Javier were unwarranted and violated the dignity of the legal profession. Therefore, Atty. Javier could be held administratively liable for his

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v. ATTY.

JOSE CONCEPCION JAVIER

CASE DIGEST: ATTY. IRENEO L. TORRES


AND MRS. NATIVIDAD CELESTINO V.
ATTY. JOSE CONCEPCION JAVIER
Published by geline on August 25, 2013 | Leave a response

ATTY. IRENEO L. TORRES AND MRS. NATIVIDAD CELESTINO v. ATTY.


JOSE CONCEPCION JAVIER

A.M. No. 5910 (2005)

Inclusion of derogatory statements actuated by his giving vent to ill-feelings stated in


the pleading is not covered by the absolute immunity or privileged communication.

Atty. Ireneo L. Torres and Mrs. Natividad Celestino charged Atty. Jose Concepcion


Javier for malpractice, gross misconduct in office as an attorney and/or violation of the
lawyer’s oath for employing statements and remarks on his pleadings which are false,
unsubstantiated, with malicious imputation, abusive, offensive and improper with
the character of an attorney as a quasi-judicial officer.

Atty. Javier professes that he was angry while he was preparing his pleadings
considering that his wife was included to the burglary exposed in the present case. Also,
he invokes that those statements he made are privileged communication, it forming part
of a judicial proceeding.

ISSUE:

Whether or not Atty. Javier is administratively liable for the alleged offensive statements
he made in his pleadings

HELD:

It is well entrenched in Philippine jurisprudence that for reasons of public policy,


utterances made in the course of judicial proceedings, including all kinds of pleadings,
petitions and motions, are absolutely privileged so long as they are pertinent and
relevant to the subject inquiry, however false or malicious they may be. A matter,
however, to which the privilege does not extend must be so palpably wanting in relation
to the subject matter of the controversy that no reasonable man can doubt its
irrelevancy or impropriety. That matter alleged in a pleading need not be in every case
material to the issues presented by the pleadings. It must, however, be legitimately
related thereto, or so pertinent to the subject of the controversy that it may become the
subject of inquiry in the course of the trial.
Clearly, Atty. Javier’s primordial reason for the offensive remark stated in his pleadings
was his emotional reaction in view of the fact that herein Complainant was in a legal
dispute with his wife. This excuse cannot be sustained; that the Atty. Javier is
representing his wife is not at all an excuse.

In keeping with the dignity of the legal profession, a lawyer’s language must be dignified
and choice of language is important in the preparation of pleadings. In the assertion of
his client’s rights, a lawyer — even one gifted with superior intellect — is enjoined to rein
up his temper.

Thus, the inclusion of the derogatory statements by respondent was actuated by his


giving vent to his ill-feelings towards Atty. Torres, a purpose to which the mantle of
absolute immunity does not extend

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