Release Brion’s psycho test-SC Justices reject Sereno’s move to block order

From: manilastandardtoday.com

 

The Supreme Court has granted the plea of Associate Justice Arturo Brion to compel the Judicial and Bar Council to release the results of the psychiatric test on the candidates for chief justice of the Supreme Court as required by the rules.

That decision came after the majority of the Court’s justices rejected the last ditch efforts of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno to block the disclosure of the results of the psychiatric examinations of those who had aspired for the position.

Reports claim that Sereno, the first female to be named chief justice, has an IQ of 109, which is average.She is also said to have received a low grade of four in her psychiatric test, and that prompted Brion to request the high court to order the JBC to announce the results of his psychiatric test for the sake of transparency.

A leaked report says Sereno “keeps a smiling face to project that she is happy,” and that “she is dramatic and emotional, she appears energetic and all smiles and agreeable, but with religious preoccupation in almost all significant aspects of her life.”

“She projects a happy mood but has depressive markers too. There is a strong tendency to make decisions based on [her] current mood, thus [the] outcome is highly subjective and self-righteous,” the report says.

The Court, with all members present, will issue a formal resolution granting Brion’s plea and ordering the 8-member council, which is headed by Sereno, to release his psychiatric test.

But Brion will be asked to submit a waiver on his right to the confidentiality rule of the council governing the psychiatric examinations of the nominees.

A Supreme Court insider said Sereno tried but failed to block the disclosure of her psychological test after the senior magistrates rejected her appeal to delay their action on it by a month.

Brion and fellow Associate Justice Teresita Leonardo De Castro opposed Sereno’s bid to postpone the justices’ action on the matter.

During the last meeting of all the chief justices, Sereno asked her colleagues to delay the release of the tests for two weeks, but the majority objected to it since it was Sereno who had promised them to report the results of the tests on Sept. 11.

Sereno was given an ultimatum of one week to confer the matter with the JBC.