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1Rollo, pp. 125.
2Penned by Associate Justice Estela M. PerlasBernabe with Associate
Justices Renato C. Dacudao and Rosmari D. Carandang, concurring
Rollo, pp. 2736.
3Rollo, p. 38.
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4 During the proceedings, respondent Jesus de Castro died and was
substituted in this action by his widow, Martiniana de Castro.
5Rollo, pp. 3944.
6CA Rollo, pp. 3334.
7The records do not show when the lease agreement started.
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9 Id.
10CA Rollo, pp. 3342.
11Rollo, pp. 4649.
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12Id., at p. 49.
13Id., at pp. 5058.
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tional defect that bars the legal action for ejectment. The
Certification to file action dated 18 January 2002 issued by
the Barangay Lupon, appended by the respondents to their
Complaint in Civil Case No. 1990, is of no moment, for it
attested only that there was confrontation between the
parties on the matter of rental increase but not on unlawful
detainer of the subject property by the petitioner. If it was
the intention of the respondents from the very beginning to
eject petitioner from the subject property, they should have
brought up the alleged unlawful stay of the petitioner on
the subject property for conciliation before the Barangay
Lupon.
The barangay justice system was established primarily
as a means of easing up the congestion of cases in the
judicial courts. This could be accomplished through a
proceeding before the barangay courts which, according to
the one who conceived of the system, the late Chief Justice
Fred Ruiz Castro, is essentially arbitration in character
and to make it truly effective, it should also be compulsory.
With this primary objective of the barangay justice system
in mind, it would be wholly in keeping with the underlying
philosophy of Presidential Decree No. 1508 (Katarungang
Pambarangay Law), which would be better served if an
outofcourt settlement of the case is reached voluntarily by
the parties.16 To ensure this objective, Section 6 of
Presidential Decree No. 1508 requires the parties to
undergo a conciliation process before the Lupon Chairman
or the Pangkat ng Tagapagkasundo as a precondition to
filing a complaint in court subject to certain exceptions.
The said section has been declared compulsory in nature.17
Presidential Decree No. 1508 is now incorporated in
Republic Act No. 7160 (The Local Government Code),
which took effect on 1 January 1992.
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16People v. Caruncho, Jr., 212 Phil. 16, 27 127 SCRA 16 (1984).
17Morata v. Go, 210 Phil. 367, 372 125 SCRA 444, 453 (1983).
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AustriaMartinez,
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30 Javelosa v. Court of Appeals, 333 Phil. 331, 339 265 SCRA 493
(1996).
31 Fulgencio v. National Labor Relations Commission, 457 Phil. 868,
880881 411 SCRA 69, 77 (2003).
32Id.
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