Angara lauds SC for starting Judges-at-Large program

The SC’s full court resolution was publicly announced last Friday, Jan. 3. The Judicial and Bar Council will now start accepting applications and nominations for the 50 new positions for “roving judges” whose primary role would be to help speed up resolution of cases in trial courts with overloaded dockets.

“The huge caseload of the courts has resulted in the slow disposition of cases, to the detriment of both the victims of crimes, as well as the accused, many of who are innocent but are deprived of their liberty,” Angara noted. “For the victims of crimes and their families, the long wait for the resolution of cases adds to the emotional and financial burden that they have to bear on top of the pain they already experienced,” Angara noted.

But under the partial implementation of the law, 30 positions for the RTCs, and 20 for the MTCs would be opened. “This is the first step towards our objective of decongesting the courts of its dockets. Eventually, the law will be implemented in full and we will have more judges to handle the cases that have piled up in our courts,” the lawmaker emphasized.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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