In Re: Joaquin T.

Borromeo

A. M. No. 93-7-696-0. February 21, 1995.

FACTS
The respondent in this case, Joaquin T. Borromeo, is not a lawyer but has apparently read
some law books, and ostensibly come to possess some superficial awareness of a few
substantive legal principles and procedural rules. Incredibly, with nothing more than this
smattering of learning, the respondent has, for some sixteen (16) years now, from 1978 to the
present, been instituting and prosecuting legal proceedings in various courts, dogmatically
pontificating on errors supposedly committed by the courts, including the Supreme Court.

Respondent Borromeo's ill-advised incursions into lawyering were generated by fairly prosaic
transactions with three (3) banks which came to have calamitous consequences for him
chiefly because of his failure to comply with his contractual commitments and his stubborn
insistence on imposing his own terms and conditions for their fulfillment.

ISSUE: Whether Respondent is guilt of constructive contempt

HELD:

Upon the indubitable facts on record, there can scarcely be any doubt of Borromeo's guilt of
contempt, for abuse of and interference with judicial rules and processes, gross disrespect to
courts and judges and improper conduct directly impeding, obstructing and degrading the
administration of justice.44 He has stubbornly litigated issues already declared to be without
merit, obstinately closing his eyes to the many rulings rendered adversely to him in many
suits and proceedings, rulings which had become final and executory, obdurately and
unreasonably insisting on the application of his own individual version of the rules, founded on
nothing more than his personal (and quite erroneous) reading of the Constitution and the law;
he has insulted the judges and court officers, including the attorneys appearing for his
adversaries, needlessly overloaded the court dockets and sorely tried the patience of the
judges and court employees who have had to act on his repetitious and largely unfounded
complaints, pleadings and motions. He has wasted the time of the courts, of his adversaries,
of the judges and court employees who have had the bad luck of having to act in one way or
another on his unmeritorious cases