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	GR No. 208976 2014-10-13	OFFICE OF OMBUDSMAN v. LEOVIGILDO DELOS REYES LEONEN, J.
"[N]egligence characterized by the want of even slight care, or by acting or omitting to act in a situation where there is a duty to act, not inadvertently but wilfully and intentionally, with a conscious indifference to the consequences, insofar as other persons may be affected. It is the omission of that care that even inattentive and thoughtless men never fail to give to ¦ their own property." It denotes a flagrant and culpable refusal or unwillingness of a person to perform a duty. In cases involving public officials, gross negligence occurs when a breach of duty is flagrant and palpable.[66] (Citations omitted)
	GR No. 197307 2014-02-26	FLOR GUPILAN-AGUILAR v. OFFICE OF OMBUDSMAN VELASCO JR., J.
only "recommend" the removal of the public official or employee found to be at fault, to the public official concerned.[36] The terse obiter in Tapiador should be compared with the holding in Ombudsman v. De Leon[37] which even chronicled the pertinent internal rules of procedure in the Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) and illustrated that, as early as 2000,