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2008-10-24 |
PER CURIAM |
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| One who invokes good faith must show honesty of intention, free from knowledge of circumstances which ought to put one upon inquiry.[8] Respondent falsified an official document to gain unwarranted advantage over other more qualified applicants to the same position. He cannot be said, therefore, to have measured up to the standards required of a public servant.[9] The Court cannot take on its face value respondent's blanket claim of good faith and inadvertence to justify his mental dishonesty and false declarations in the three entries of his PDS. Respondent cannot feign ignorance of the falsities he has declared as he is the Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper "Romblon Today" and cannot be said to be someone who lacks schooling or has a difficulty in comprehending its plain import. Per his PDS, respondent had his college from 1982-1986 at the University of the East and graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts (AB), Major in Political Science. He took up Law at the same university for one year, stating "up to First Year, Second Semester" without indicating the specific year. It cannot be said that respondent did not fully understand the details he filled out in the PDS. In Item No. 31, it states "I declare that the answers given above are true and correct" which means that a government employee who will affix one's signature therein declares that all the information supplied in the PDS are true and correct to the best of the declarant's personal knowledge. All things being equal, another employee who possesses similar qualifications should have been appointed had it not been for the misrepresentations of respondent. | |||||
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2005-09-30 |
AUSTRIA-MARTINEZ, J. |
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| Good faith requires honesty of intention, free from any knowledge of circumstances that ought to have prompted him to undertake an inquiry.[39] Undoubtedly, petitioner was in good faith. Petitioner was led to believe by SLU that he already completed his course requirements for BSED in 1991 such that he was even employed by his alma mater as part of its teaching staff, as a Substitute Teacher, in the SLU Laboratory High School for School Year 1991-1992. | |||||