CJ Gesmundo bares 5-year SC plan to make courts ‘consistently efficient, accountable’

Chief Justice Alexander G. Gesmundo has laid down the Supreme Court’s “strategic plan” in the next five years to make the country’s courts “consistently efficient and accountable havens for the disadvantaged, the wronged, the injured.”

He confessed: “The general populace has routinely expressed dissatisfaction with the slow pace of justice delivery in our country. Whether fairly or not, the courts have been blamed for such case delay. The oft-cited phrase ‘justice delayed is justice denied’ has not lost its sting.” He also said: “The SC will launch a Campaign for Ethical Responsibility for the Bench and Bar. The revision of the Code of Professional Responsibility is set to commence which, once approved by the Court En Banc, will be brought around the country via an Ethics Caravan, culminating in a National Summit on Ethical Responsibility.”

He pointed out that effective legal representation is “the backbone of the due process right to a day court.” But because of the expense, he lamented, many are denied legal representation. “Legal aid should thus be strengthened as the equalizing mechanism,’ he stressed. “The IBP through its Chapters should partner with the established Legal Aid Clinics of LEB-accredited law schools in their respective areas,” he added.

“In line with promoting transparency and accountability in the Judiciary, the Court shall likewise leverage the eCourt system v.2.0 where litigants can track the status of their cases online and in real-time.

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