[A.M.
No. 00-2-05-SC. February 22, 2000]
IN THE MATTER OF
CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS IN DECISIONS AND SIGNED RESOLUTIONS
EN BANC
Gentlemen:
Quoted
hereunder, for your information, is a resolution of this Court dated FEB 22 2000.
A.M. No. 00-2-05-SC
(In the Matter of Correction of Typographical Errors in Decisions and
Signed Resolutions.)
Inadvertent typographical errors in decisions and
signed resolutions he Court may occur every now and then. As these decisions and signed resolutions
are published and preserved for posterity in the Philippine reports, the
Supreme Court Reports Annotated, and other publications, as well as in
the Supreme Court Website, the need for making them free of typographical
errors cannot be overemphasized.
Care should, therefore, be taken in proofreading them before they are
submitted for promulgation/or publication.
Nevertheless, should typographical errors be
discovered after the promulgation and/or publication of decisions and resolutions,
the following procedure should be observed to the end that unauthorized
corrections, alterations, or intercalations in what are public and official
documents are made:
1. In case of decisions and signed resolutions
with the authors’ names indicated, the Reporter and the Chief of the
Management information Systems Office of the Supreme Court should secure the
authority of the author concerned to make the necessary correction of
typographical errors. In case of per
curiam decisions and unsigned resolutions authority to make
corrections should be secured from the Chief Justice.
2. The correction of typographical errors shall
be made by crossing out the incorrect word and inserting by hand the
appropriate correction immediately above the cancelled word. Such correction shall be authenticated by
the author by signing his initials immediately below the correction. In per curiam decisions and unsigned
resolutions, and in cases re the author is no longer a member of the Court, the
authentication be made by the Chief Justice.
3.
The Reporter and the Chief of the
Management Information Systems Office shall submit to the Court, through the
Clerk of Court, a quarterly report of decisions and resolutions in which
corrections have been made. The Clerk
of Court must thereafter include the report in the agenda the Court en banc.
This resolution takes effect immediately.
Promulgated this 22nd day of February 2000.
Very
truly yours,
(Sgd.) MA. LUISA D. VILLARAMA
Asst.
Clerk of Court