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The Supreme Court (SC) suspended work in the trial courts in the National Capital Region (NCR) starting at 2 p.m. on Thursday, March 26, due to the ongoing transport strike. But the SC directed trial court judges to maintain “sufficient staff members to act on urgent requests for bail, orders of...

President Marcos has signed several republic acts (RAs) creating additional regional trial court (RTC) and metropolitan trial court branches in different parts of the country. President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. (File/RTVM screenshot) Copies of the RAs shared with the media on Sunday...

Senator-elect Rafael “Raffy” Tulfo on Sunday vowed to increase the budget of the judiciary when the Senate starts deliberation on the proposed 2023 national budget in the coming months. Tulfo said his “personal working goal is to push for an increase of at least P6.25-billion so that the...

Regional Trial Courts (RTCs) and Municipal Trial Courts (MTCs) in the province of Bulacan resumed physical operations on Monday, Oct. 18. Bulacan Provincial Capitol Building (Freddie Velez / File photo / MANILA BULLETIN) The resumption of the trial courts’ operations in the province was confirmed...

A measure seeking to widen the jurisdiction of first and second level courts has been signed into law by President Duterte in a bid to hasten the disposition of cases. President Rodrigo Duterte (File photo/Malacañang) Under Republic Act No. 11576, the jurisdiction of metropolitan trial courts,...