[ OCA CIRCULAR NO. 55-2017, March 13, 2017 ]

[ OCA CIRCULAR NO. 55-2017, March 13, 2017 ]

[ OCA CIRCULAR NO. 55-2017, March 13, 2017 ]

TO : THE COURT OF APPEALS, SANDIGANBAYAN, COURT OF TAX APPEALS, REGIONAL TRIAL COURTS, SHARI'A DISTRICT COURTS, METROPOLITAN TRIAL COURTS, MUNICIPAL TRIAL COURTS IN CITIES, MUNICIPAL TRIAL COURTS, MUNICIPAL CIRCUIT TRIAL COURTS, SHARI'A CIRCUIT COURTS, THE OFFICE OF THE CHIEF STATE PROSECUTOR, PUBLIC ATTORNEY'S OFFICE AND THE INTEGRATED BAR OF THE PHILIPPINES

SUBJECT : SUSPENSION OF ATTY. LEONARDO C. ADVINCULA FROM THE PRACTICE OF LAW FOR THREE (3) MONTHS

For your information and guidance, quoted hereunder is the Decision dated 14 June 2016 of the Court En Banc in Administrative Case No. 9226, entitled "Ma. Cecilia Clarissa C. Advincula v. Atty. Leonardo C. Advincula,” to wit:

WHEREFORE, the Court FINDS AND DECLARES ATTY. LEONARDO C. ADVINCULA GUILTY of immorality; and SUSPENDS him from the practice of law for a period of THREE MONTHS EFFECTIVE UPON NOTICE HEREOF, with a STERN WARNING that a more severe penalty shall be imposed should he commit the same offense or a similar offense; DIRECTS ATTY. ADVINCULA to report the date of his receipt of the Decision to this Court; and ORDERS the Chief of the Personnel Division of the National Bureau of Investigation to implement the suspension from office of ATTY. ADVINCULA and to report on his compliance in order to determine the date of commencement of his suspension from the practice of law.

Respondent personally received the aforesaid Decision on 19 July 2016.

13 March 2017

(SGD.) JOSE MIDAS P. MARQUEZ Court Administrator