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	AM No. MTJ-06-1619 2006-01-23	JESUSA ODONEL GENIL v. JUDGE ROGACIANO Y. RIVERA CARPIO MORALES, J.
Judges owe it to the public to be knowledgeable, hence, they are expected to have more than just a modicum of acquaintance with the statutes and procedural rules. [30] When the law is so elementary, not to know it or to act as if one does not know it constitutes gross ignorance of the law, [31] the mainspring of injustice. [32]
	AM NO. RTJ-05-1909 2005-04-06	COMMUNITY RURAL BANK OF GUIMBA v. JUDGE TOMAS B. TALAVERA PANGANIBAN, J.
Judges are expected to have more than just a modicum acquaintance with the statutes and procedural rules.[49] The Code of Judicial Ethics requires them to be embodiments of, among other desirable characteristics, judicial competence.[50] They are not common individuals whose gross errors "men forgive and time forgets."[51]