I'm Giancarlo Enrico S. Pozon, a Wushu instructor, investor and Barrister... That's right, Barrister; I graduated from law school and took the Bar Exams, now I'm waiting for the results. I created this blog to make Philippine Law easy to understand for the average person. It's all about free legal advice. There are many law blogs. But the problem is that many of them are written for lawyers and law students. They use words that can't be understood by ordinary people.
Many lawyers, judges and law students consider themselves as superior to most human beings because of their knowledge of the law. It bothers me since the law is supposed to serve society. Since the law is meant to serve society as a whole, it is important that is must be understood by everybody.
This does not mean that we should all become lawyers. It means that although law is a highly specialized profession, the first duty of everybody in this profession is to make the law understandable to all; that's why all these articles are free legal advice.
Like I said, this blog is about law -but it's for the ordinary people, not the lawyers. It's for the ordinary folk so they will know what is good and bad for them, and that making them aware of the law will help us all improve society as a whole. This is free legal advice for everybody!
So now we come to the last of the 6 Canons of Judicial Conduct, the one that talks of competence and diligence.
A judge's duties are to be considered superior to all his other activities. This doesn't only include the actual duties in court, but the those related to the court's operations as well. All their duties, including delivery of reserved decisions must be performed effectively, fairly and with reasonable promptness and cannot engage in conduct that is incompatible with the diligent discharge of their duties (sec. 1-2, 5 & 7.)
A judge is required to maintain and enhance his knowledge of the law and must take advantage of the training opportunities made available to him. In particular, he is required to make himself aware of international law with an emphasis on changes in the trends in human rights (sec. 3-4.)
Proper decorum and order must be maintained by the judge in all proceedings in court. He must be courteous, patient, dignified and attentive to the witnesses, parties, lawyers, his staff and all others he deals with in an official capacity. Furthermore, he is required to demand similar conduct of said people towards those under their influence and control (sec. 6.)
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