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Thursday, January 13, 2005
Despite CA division here, lawyers still go to Manila
By Grecar Nilles
Sun.Star Staff Reporter
Almost four months after the three divisions from the Court of Appeals (CA) began operating in Cebu City, several lawyers still get lost and file their cases in Manila.
This keeps lawyers and litigants from seeing prompt action on the cases or petitions filed with the appellate court, which was the reason the appeals court set up shop in the city.
“The Court of Appeals for the Visayas was created to bring the courts closer to the people. But it is quite sad that several cases are still filed in Manila,” CA 20th Division Chairman Isaias Dicdican said.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Hilario Davide Jr. will be in Cebu City tomorrow for the installation of CA Justice Mercedes Gozo-Dadole as executive justice for the Visayas.
100 boxes
Dadole was appointed as the executive justice for the appellate court because she is the most senior justice for the Visayas.
On the same day Dadole will take her oath, a 20-foot container van carrying 100 boxes full of case records will also arrive. These are the cases, appeals and other pleadings that were filed in Manila, instead of Cebu City.
Dicdican said the records that will be delivered here tomorrow are pleadings and motions of the pending cases before the CA.
The petitions asking for the issuance of a temporary restraining order and injunction that were filed in Manila were immediately sent here.
“It is good that the court records would already arrive so that we can also work already on the pending cases before our court. We have been waiting for the records so that we can dispose of the cases pending before the court immediately,” Dicdican said.
The CA for the Visayas started operating in Cebu City last Sept. 20, while the CA building in Banawa, Cebu City was inaugurated last Oct. 15.
Justices
Dadole, who was appointed to the appellate court in 1999, was appointed the executive judge of the CA Visayas last Dec. 20.
The functions of the executive justice include the approval of applications for leaves of absence, designation of acting members to fill the absences, authority for special raffle, temporary detail of the court persons within the station and the signing of vouchers.
Dicdican said executive justices are chosen based on seniority in the appellate court, as stated in Section 4, Rule 1 of the Internal Rules of the CA.
Next to Dadole is Justice Arsenio J. Magpale, who was appointed in 2001, while the other CA justices for the Visayas were appointed last year.
Of the six other justices appointed to the appellate court last year, Dicdican is the most senior among them based on the ranking released after their appointment.
The other CA justices for the Visayas are Pampio A. Abarintos, Mariflor P. Castillo, Sesinando D. Villon, Vicente L. Yap and Ramon M. Bato Jr.
(January 13, 2005 issue)
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