Practice question
A judge’s former coworker is counsel in a pending case, and that lawyer had already been engaged in the same action while they worked together. Explain the precise former-associate ground under the 2025 CJCA without treating every prior professional acquaintance as automatically sufficient.
Legal references
- https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/11/100836 — 2025 CJCA, Canon III, Sections 2 and 9–13.
- https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/rc_137_judicial.html — Rule 137, Sections 1–2, judicial disqualification.
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