The number of members of the bench has further increased after forty-six (46) newly appointed and promoted judges successfully completed the nine-day orientation program conducted by the Philippine Judicial Academy on December 1-10, 2009, at A. Venue Hotel Suites, Antel Lifestyle City, Makati City.

The Philippine Judicial Academy (PHILJA), Association Compassion Asian Youth (ACAY), Educational Research and Development Assistance (ERDA), the Embassy of France in the Philippines and Rotary Club of San Francisco Del Monte, came in full force during the recently conducted Forum on Children in Conflict with the Law (CICL) on December 3, 2009, at the Court of Appeals Auditorium, Manila.

Taking into account the safety and security of our honorable judges, a Personal Security Training for Judges was conducted by the Philippine Judicial Academy (PHILJA), Office of the Court Administrator (OCA), and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on December 8-10, 2009, at the Taal Vista Hotel, Tagaytay City.

      In Cabigao vs. Del Rosario, G.R. No. 76838, April 17, 1990, 184 SCRA 374, 378, the Supreme Court laid down the doctrine that no court has the power to interfere by injunction with the judgments or decrees of a court of concurrent jurisdiction having power to grant the relief sought by injunction.