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Saturday, February 15, 2003
Spend suspension time at CH: Tom tells Carillo
By Gingging A. Campaña
IF THE Supreme Court (SC) refuses to reconsider its order, Mayor Tomas Osmeña said Councilor Gerardo Carillo “can make the best” out of his six-month suspension as a lawyer “by spending more time with the Cebu City Government.”
Carillo will be leaving more than a hundred criminal and civil cases he is handling to his lawyer associates while serving his suspension.
He will also file his motion for reconsideration before the SC by Monday.
Carillo, who is holding most committees in the executive department, is one of the most trusted councilors in the Osmeña administration.
“It could happen to anybody. It even happened to (lawyer Bernardito) Dito Florido,” Osmeña told reporters.
Apart from heading two committees in the City Council, Carillo represents the mayor as chairman to the Cebu City Disaster Coordinating Council and the local housing board. He is also a member of the Personnel Selection Board.
He has been tasked to represent the mayor during the dialogues held with the Transport Unity Forum (TUF) in their protests, and to look into the allegations of former members of the religious cult Salva Me Pater Omnis Oculus Meus on the plight of women and children who belong to it.
Carillo, who met with lawyers Jade Ponce, Jun Cabilao and Wendel Queban yesterday morning, said they are willing to take over all the cases he is handling that mostly involve rape and sexual abuse of women and minors.
In some of the cases, Carillo is the counsel for the accused. He is also handling civil cases like annulment and legal separations.
As to the case of the Salva Me children and women, Carillo said, this will be taken care of by lawyer Babes Rabillas.
Carillo said he is not the counsel for Jeno Pilapil when he filed a labor case against the Visayan Electric Co.
“The High Court received the first record of the case. The records will speak for themselves because nowhere does it say that I’m his counsel,” he told reporters.
The SC has suspended Carillo for six months from the practice of law for negligence in the performance of his duties as counsel in a labor case.
He is the second Cebu-based lawyer to be suspended in recent days by the SC, which also suspended former mayoral candidate Bernardito Florido for three months.
(February 15, 2003 issue)
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