[ OCA CIRCULAR NO. 49-2014, April 01, 2014 ]

[ OCA CIRCULAR NO. 49-2014, April 01, 2014 ]

[ OCA CIRCULAR NO. 49-2014, April 01, 2014 ]

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 : DISBARMENT OF ATTY. ROGELIO JUAN A. CELERA

For your information and guidance, quoted hereunder is the dispositive portion of the Decision of the Court En Banc dated 14 January 2014 in Administrative Case No. 5581, entitled "Rose Bunagan-Bansig v. Atty. Rogelio Juan A. Celera", to wit:

IN VIEW OF ALL THE FOREGOING, we find respondent ATTY. ROGELIO JUAN A. CELERA, guilty of grossly immoral conduct and willful disobedience of lawful orders rendering him unworthy of continuing membership in the legal profession. He is thus ordered DISBARRED from the practice of law and his name stricken off the Roll of Attorneys, effective immediately.

1 April 2014

(SGD.) JOSE MIDAS P. MARQUEZ Court Administrator