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SC to test online payment of all court fees

Published Mar 3, 2022 11:00 am

Supreme Court

The Supreme Court is set to test its online payment of all court fees from lawyers and litigants, and others fees like those for clearances, certifications, and other court services.

The online payment, called Judiciary Electronic Payment Solution (JEPS) will be pilot tested in 20 first level courts in the country based on circular issued by Court Administrator Raul B. Villanueva.

Participating courts during the pilot test are the Metropolitan Trial Court (MeTC), Quezon City; MeTC Mandaluyong City; MeTC, San Juan City; Municipal Trial Court in Cities (MTCC) in Malolos City, MTCC, Baguio City; MTCC, Angeles City; MTCC, Cabuyao City; MTCC, Naga City;

MTCC, Vigan City; MTCC, Ilagan City; MTCC, Puerto Prinsesa City; MTCC, Bacolod City; MTCC, Lapu-lapu City; MTCC, Dumaguete City; MTCC, Tacloban City; MTCC, Zamboanga City; MTCC, Cagayan de Oro City; MTCC, Cotabato City; MTCC, Dipolog City; and MTCC, Davao City;

In a press statement, the SC’s public information office (PIO) said that clerks of court of the 20 pilot courts were directed “to adopt the Interim Guidelines Implementation of the JEPS which, among others, designates the Union Bank of the Philippines (UBP) system as an alternative mode of payment of legal fees and other collections, in addition to the Fortune Pay Online Portal, until the integration of the latter with the system.”

The clerks of court “will post the instructions on how to pay electronically using UBP system on the payment windows or bulletin boards of their respective courts, both in English and in the local dialect of the place where the pilot court is situated.

“The JEPS is aimed at making the assessment and payment of legal fees and other collections of the Judiciary more convenient by providing the litigants, their counsels/representatives, and persons requesting for clearances, certifications, and other services from the court the option to pay online through major banks as conduit,” the SC said.

It said: “The system is currently limited to Union Bank accounts (no convenience fee), bank transfer through instaPay and PESONet (both with convenience fee).”

It also said “the pilot-testing of the JEPS in the selected courts is an offshoot of the Memorandum of Agreement entered into by the Supreme Court and the UBP on March 15, 2021 for the latter to develop an ePayment solution for the Judiciary.”

The SC launched on July 23, 2021 the judiciary’s ePayment for Small Claims, the online payment of legal fees for small claims cases, after the signing of an agreement with Easypay Global EMI Corp. (EGEC), the owner of Fortune Pay which is a mobile wallet app that enables users to enjoy an easy, fast, and secure way of digital payment.

The SC said “the JEPS, which is open to all banks and their account holders, is an application designed to provide the Supreme Court and all the courts in the country the option to receive fees and payments digitally from litigants, their counsels, and representatives on a safe, secure, real-time, and 24/7 basis from anywhere at their convenience.”

The JEPS “involves an automated tool that will allow authorized judiciary personnel to process and manage payment related activities swiftly and efficiently, and is aimed at streamlining the processes of assessment and payment of court fees, increasing accessibility of the public to judicial services, increasing transparency and accountability, and providing the Supreme Court with efficient accounting and auditing mechanisms.”

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