SEACREST MARITIME MANAGEMENT, INC., PETITIONER, VS. PANEL OF VOLUNTARY ARBITRATORS COMPOSED OF ATTY. EDGAR C. RECIÑA (CHAIRMAN), CAPT. JAIME AQUINO (MEMBER) AND ATTY. ALLAN S. M…

Petitioner Seacrest Maritime Management, Inc. and private respondent Roger U. Habagat filed before this Court a Joint Manifestation^[1] praying for the dismissal of the petition for certiorari^[2] based on amicable settlement. Annexed to the Joint Manifestation is the Joint Motion to Dismiss^[3] the case filed by the parties before the National Conciliation and Mediation Board (NCMB), Release of All Rights^[4] and Pagpapaubaya ng Lahat ng Karapatan^[5], both signed by Habagat and the witnesses for both parties and approved by the Panel of Voluntary Arbitrators, and Affidavit of Claimant^[6] and Receipt of Payment,^[7] both executed by Habagat.

Habagat thereafter filed a Manifestation^[8] stating that he would no longer file the required comment to the petition in view of the amicable settlement between him and Seacrest. In addition to all the documents the parties attached to their Joint Manifestation, Habagat also appended in his Manifestation the Minutes of the Meeting^[9] dated October 30, 2014 where the amicable settlement was approved and the case was dismissed with prejudice by the NCMB.

Finding the compromise agreement to have been validly executed and not contrary to law, morals, good customs, public order, or public policy, the same is noted and made part of the records of the case.

ACCORDINGLY, in view of the said agreement, the petition for certiorari is hereby DISMISSED.

SO ORDERED.

Librea-Leagogo, C.C., Chairperson and Lazaro-Javier, A.C., J.J., concur.

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^[1] Rollo, pp. 300-301.

^[2] Id. at 3-35.

^[3] Id. at 302-304.

^[4] Id. at 305-309.

RELEASE OF ALL RIGHTS

READ CAREFULLY- By signing this you give up EVERY right you have.

I, ROGER U. HABAGAT, Filipino, of legal age, with residence address at B4 L21 Villa Elisa Subd., Anabu II, Imus Cavite, in exchange for TWO MILLION SIX HUNDRED SIXTY FOUR THOUSAND THREEE (sic) HUNDRED FOUR AND 65/100 Pesos (Php2,664,304.65) which I have received , do hereby Release x x x and forever discharge: MONSOON MARITIME SERVICES PHILS., INC., AND/OR SEACREST MARITIME MANAGEMENT, INC. and their heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns and their several vessels and in particular the “M/T ELSIE MARIE THERESA”, and its owners, agents, operators, charterers, master, officers and crews, the underwriters and P &I Club of said vessels from each and every right and claim which I now have, or may hereafter have, x x x.

^[5] Id. at 310-314.

^[6] Id. at 334-335.

^[7] Id. at 336.

^[8] Id. at 318-319.

^[9] Id. at 337.