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Applications for judiciary posts now online -- SC

Published May 17, 2024 05:10 am

Applications for vacancies in the judiciary will now be accepted online through the Judicial and Bar Council’s (JBC) Online Registration and Application System (O.R.A.S.).

The Supreme Court (SC) said O.R.A.S. will be accessible to the public starting June 1, and the step-by-step guide on how to use O.R.A.S may be viewed on the SC’s website at: https://sc.judiciary.gov.ph/aiovg_videos/online-registration-and-application-system-oras/

O.R.A.S. was launched last Thursday, May 16, at the SC’s session hall.  Present during the launch were Chief Justice and JBC Ex Officio Chairperson Alexander G. Gesmundo and SC Associate Justices Ramon Paul L. Hernando, Jose Midas P. Marquez, and Maria Filomena D. Singh.

The online system will be pilot-tested and used for the upcoming opening for the vacancies in the Court of Appeals and Sandiganbayan for the two courts’ presiding justices on June 13, 2024.  

However, O.R.A.S may not yet be used for applications for lower court vacancies starting May 22, it also said.

The JBC is a constitutional office that accepts and screens applications, and nominates appointments to the judiciary, Ombudsman, deputy Ombudsman, special prosecutor in the Office of the Ombudsman, and the chairperson and regular members of the Legal Education Board.

“The JBC O.R.A.S. is a platform that basically took the Personal Data Sheet that the JBC requires and placed it online,” said Atty. Michelle Sharon Clara S. Domingo, Chief of the JBC Office of Policy and Development Research.

Domingo said that JBC O.R.A.S. also has features that make the user’s experience convenient and accessible, and is also integrated to the Philippine Judiciary Platform to ensure that no bogus accounts will be created.

Atty. Nesauro H. Firme, JBC regular member representing the Academe, pointed out how the O.R.A.S. will strengthen the JBC’s task of checking the integrity of applicants to judicial posts.

“Our own personnel who had been tasked to manually encode data of the applicants can now focus on their real duty based on their plantilla descriptions, which is background investigation. This is because O.R.A.S. is created to remove the said [manual] encoding,” Firme said.

O.R.A.S. was conceptualized by the JBC in line with the SC’s Strategic Plan for Judicial Innovations 2022-2027 (SPJI).

“The JBC O.R.A.S. is a clear testament to the JBC’s commitment to the SPJI and to the Supreme Court’s goal of achieving efficiency, innovation, and access in its service delivery,” said JBC Executive Officer Atty. Leah P. Laja-Otto.

Also present during the launching  were Court of Appeals Associate Justice Jose Lorenzo R. Dela Rosa; Rep. and JBC Ex Officio Member Juliet Marie De Leon Ferrer; Clerk of Court En Banc and JBC Ex Officio Secretary Atty. Marife M. Lomibao-Cuevas; JBC Regular Members retired SC Justice Jose Catral Mendoza, retired judge Judge Toribio E. Ilao, Jr., and retired Associate Justice Erlinda Piñera Uy; Philippine Judicial Academy Vice Chancellor retired SC Associate Justice Mariano C. Del Castillo; and Department of Justice Undersecretary Raul T. Vasquez.

They were joined by incumbent judges, SC officials, and officials of the Legal Education Board and the Integrated Bar of the Philippines.

 

 

 

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