MANILA – The Supreme Court withdrew yesterday the alleged controversial, illegal and fake resolution issued by Chief Justice Lourdes Sereno in line with the revival of the Regional Court Administration Office in Central Visayas.

This was the "consensus" of the justices of the SC during their last en banc session for this year.

Sereno attended the deliberation of the SC en banc yesterday. She did not make it in the en banc session last week.

In an earlier memorandum, Senior Associate Justice Teresita Leonardo-De Castro called for the withdrawal of the resolution because it was allegedly illegal and it was neither ratified nor approved by the justices in their en banc session on Nov. 27, 2012.

De Castro said the chief justice has no authority to create the Judiciary Decentralized Office and deprive the highest court of the land the opportunity to perform its constitutional duty to supervise all the courts nationwide.

The SC also designated Associate Justice Jose Perez to head a group that would study whether it is fitting and proper to revive the RCAO.*PNA

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