EPISODE 124: Decoding the 2025 Code of Judicial Conduct and Accountability

<p>With the Judiciary’s latest reforms and renewed ethical commitment by Judiciary, how does the 2025 Code of Judicial Conduct and Accountability balance judges’ and justices’ personal freedom with the responsibility to uphold integrity and maintain public trust in today’s era of social media, artificial intelligence, and heightened public scrutiny?</p><p><br></p><p>Listen to the #SupremeCourtPH Podcast with guest Atty. Joan S. Largo, a Member of the Judicial and Philosophy Department of the Philippine Judicial Academy and of the Supreme Court Technical Working Group that drafted The 2025 Code of Judicial Conduct and Accountability. She served as the Bar Examiner in Remedial Law in the 2020/21 Bar Examinations and in Civil Law for the 2023 Bar Examinations. She is currently the Vice President for Administration of the University San Carlos and the long-serving former dean of USC’s School of Law and Governance in Cebu. She is the first woman to serve as USC’s Vice President.</p><p><br></p><p>Supreme Court Chief Communications Officer Atty. Mike Navallo and Atty. Largo discuss the 2025 Code of Judicial Conduct and Accountability, the updated version of the 2004 Code of Judicial Conduct, which governs the conduct of all Justices and judges.</p><p><br></p>