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Sunday, April 16, 2006
Judges urged to ‘surf’ for swifter decisions
THE Palace of Justice, which houses 22 Regional Trial Court salas and eight Municipal Trial Court in Cities branches, is probably the biggest consumer of paper among all government agencies in Cebu, will soon be wired.
And if a plan from the Office of the Court Administrator pushes through, all judges will have a wired desktop next to their volume of the Rules of Court—so they can go surfing for jurisprudence for their decisions.
Trial courts in Metro Manila, as well as all the divisions of the Court of Appeals (CA), already have DSL Internet access. The courts in Cebu will have their own broadband access before the end of the year.
Part of the Court’s Action Program for Judicial Reform (APJR), the project aims to improve judicial systems and procedure.
In a statement, Justice Antonio Carpio, chairperson of the Supreme Court’s Committee on Computerization and Library, said that the DSL connection would be the key to modernizing the Philippine judiciary, as it would make possible the implementation of several judicial reform projects.
With the project, judges now have easy access the Court’s e-library, an on-line database that contains Supreme Court decisions, resolutions, issuances and the latest jurisprudence.
The DSL connection, Carpio announced, would also enable the Court to continuously and effectively implement its other reform projects such as the e-Payment System, the Philippine Judicial Academy’s e-Learning program, the Caseflow Management System, Court Administration Management Information System project, and the soon-to-be launched Court Clearance System.
Internet access, according to the High Tribunal, will greatly contribute in the fight against limited access to justice by the poor, corruption, incompetence and delays in the delivery of quality judgments. (KNR)
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