A LAWYER who voiced harsh words against his adversary in public has been reprimanded by the Supreme Court and sternly warned against repeating the same.
In a resolution uploaded on the SC website on December 3, the SC’s Second Division sanctioned lawyer Simeon C. Sato for angrily shouting “I will send you to jail!” during a heated exchange with the complainant, Ik Kwan Lee in 2015 in Rosario, Cavite.
“Emotions ran high, considering that there are civil cases between Atty. Sato’s client and Lee. Even so, Atty. Sato should be warned not to engage in the same or any similar act in the future,” the SC said.
Sato, the opposing counsel in an ejectment case Lee supposedly already won, angrily confronted the latter at the compound of RIH ITA Electronics Corp. at the Cavite Export Processing Zone in Rosario, Cavite.
Sato allegedly told Lee, “You should not be here, it has been a long time since you have been gone” and Lee replied “I came to claim my factory back”.
Sato apparently entered his car when Lee instructed a witness to record the incident on her phone prompting Sato to Lee “I will send you to jail”.
In its ruling, the SC said the counsel was reminded “that a lawyer must conduct him/herself ethically and morally, and should not engage in any behavior that would adversely affect his/ her fitness to practice law”.
It added that Sato “should have held his temper and avoided having an argument with Lee”. ( Benjamin Pulta)
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