Practice question
Several complaints arise from the same alleged act. May preventive suspension be imposed anew for each complaint solely because they have separate docket numbers?
- No; Section9 permits preventive suspension only once for the same act or omission, subject to its stated rules.
- Yes, separate numbers always permit unlimited successive suspensions.
- Yes, each complainant chooses a new suspension term.
- Yes, without Supreme Court action.
- Yes, even after exoneration solely as punishment.
Legal references
- 2025 CJCA, AM25-04-04-SC, CanonVII Sections3–4,7–12,22,24–28: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/11/100836
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