[ OCA CIRCULAR NO. 136-2014, November 05, 2014 ]

[ OCA CIRCULAR NO. 136-2014, November 05, 2014 ]

[ OCA CIRCULAR NO. 136-2014, November 05, 2014 ]

TO : ALL JUDGES AND CLERKS OF COURT OF THE FIRST AND THE SECOND LEVEL COURTS UNDER THE HUSTISYEAH! CASE DECONGESTION PROJECT

SUBJECT : CASE DECONGESTION STATUS AND MONTHLY REPORTS

WHEREAS, in a Resolution dated 16 April 2013 in A.M. No. 13-04-11-SC, the Court en bane approved the full roll out of the Hustisyeah!, a case decongestion project in selected courts to be implemented by the Office of the Court Administrator (OCA) and The Asia Foundation (TAF);

WHEREAS, to fully implement Hustisyeah!, the OCA and TAF formed inventory teams led by judicial supervisors and deployed them to the participating courts;

WHEREAS, after an inventory in a particular court, the judicial supervisor is tasked to prepare the Initial Inventory Report and, together with the presiding judge, submit the Case Decongestion Plan (CDP), which shall thereafter be implemented;

WHEREAS, TAF has been tasked to consolidate the results of Hustisyeah!;

NOW, THEREFORE, to assist TAF in monitoring the implementation of Hustisyeah!, all judges and clerks of court of the first and the second level courts under the Hustisyeah! case decongestion project are hereby required to:

1. Continuously monitor the status of cases listed in the CDPs;

2. Accomplish the attached status report form and submit to TAF at the end of the third and sixth month after the signing of the CDP and thereafter every end of January and end of July; and

3. Provide TAF electronic or hard copy of the court's Monthly Reports from the starting month of the inventory to the last month of implementation of the CDP.

For strict compliance.

5 November 2014

(SGD.) JOSE MIDAS P. MARQUEZ Court Administrator