[ OCA CIRCULAR NO. 52-2010, April 23, 2010 ]

[ OCA CIRCULAR NO. 52-2010, April 23, 2010 ]

[ OCA CIRCULAR NO. 52-2010, April 23, 2010 ]

TO:

TO: ALL JUDGES OF THE FIRST AND SECOND LEVEL COURTS

SUBJECT:

EXPEDITING THE HEARINGS OF CASES INVOLVING JAIL INMATES AND PRISONERS

Pursuant to the Resolution of the Court En Bane dated 16 February 2010 in A.M. No. 10-1-01-O (Re: Recommendation of Assistant Solicitor General Karl B. Miranda, Office of the Solicitor General [OSG], Relative to the Efforts of the Supreme Court to Expedite the Hearings of Cases Involving Jail Inmates and Prisoners), all lower courts are enjoined to observe the following recommendations of the OSG, to quote:

"1. Jail inmates and prisoners be given access to crucial information on their cases. This can be done by requiring copies of pleadings, motions, orders, resolutions and decisions thereon, to be served upon them, and not only upon their legal counsels. Service to legal counsel of said pleadings, motions, orders, resolutions and decisions, however, remains to be the reckoning period for filing motions for reconsideration, new trial, appeal or petitions for review,

2. Copies of the abovementioned pleadings be given to the Bureau of Corrections and the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology, as the case maybe" For strict compliance.

April 23, 2010.

(SGD.) JOSE MIDAS P. MARQUEZ Court Administrator