Regional Trial Court Br. 100, City of Antipolo

For your guidance and information.

https://abogado.com.ph/sc-no-work-in-all-courts-nationwide-on-may-25-2/

SC: No work in all courts nationwide on May 25 The Supreme Court on Wednesday announced that there will be no work in all courts nationwide on May 25 in observance of Eid’l Fitr (Feast of Ramadhan).

https://twitter.com/SCPh_PIO/status/1259751446544740354?s=19

Supreme Court Public Information Office (PIO) on Twitter “The Official Philippine Judiciary Emails pursuant to OCA Circular 92-2020 may be viewed at https://t.co/wYiXlDepmD and https://t.co/9Hn68A7PVT”

https://abogado.com.ph/sc-releases-court-hotlines-email-ads-for-matters-needing-urgent-attention/

SC releases court hotlines, email ads for matters needing urgent attention The Supreme Court on Friday released the hotline numbers and email addresses of courts where litigants, lawyers, prosecutors, and the general public can call on matters needing urgent attention.

https://news.mb.com.ph/2020/03/22/list-of-telephones-e-mail-addresses-fb-accounts-of-courts-nationwide/

List of telephones, e-mail addresses, FB accounts of courts nationwide The Supreme Court (SC) has directed a physical shutdown of all courts nationwide starting Monday, March 23, in an effort to help address the spreading coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

https://abogado.com.ph/sc-closes-all-courts-starting-monday-march-23/

SC closes ALL courts starting Monday, March 23 The Supreme Court on Friday announced the closure of all courts nationwide starting Monday, March 23, due to the continuous rise of COVID-19 cases in the country.

FYI Your Honors:

ADMINISTRATIVE CIRCULAR 32 - 2020

TO : ALL LITIGANTS, JUSTICES, JUDGES AND PERSONNEL OF THE JUDICIARY, AND MEMBERS OF THE BAR

RE : RISING CASES OF COVID-19 INFECTION

Due to the unabated rise of Covid-19 infection, and with the entire country now under a state of calamity, with many cities either on “Extreme Enhanced Community Quarantine” or “Lockdown,” and to further limit the movement and travel of justices, judges and their skeleton-staff, in line with the appeal of the Government for the general public to stay home to prevent the further spread of Covid-19, ALL COURTS NATIONWIDE, from the Supreme Court down to the first level courts, SHALL BE PHYSICALLY CLOSED to all court users and may be reached only through their respective HOTLINES, and email addresses and Facebook accounts, if available, EFFECTIVE 23 March 2020, Monday.

The litigants, lawyers, prosecutors and the general public are hereby advised to first call the proper court through its hotline, or access it through its email address or Facebook account, if available, wherein it shall be determined if the matter being raised is urgent. If urgent, only then will the justice or judge on-duty, together with the skeleton-staff, go to court to receive and act on the said urgent matter. All calls and messages shall be entertained from 8:30am to 2:00pm, Monday to Friday.

Accordingly, all justices and judges on-duty, together with their skeleton staff, must stay at their respective residences, and shall only go to their courts once it has been determined that an urgent matter has to be acted upon. Otherwise, they need not go to their courts.

Court personnel who were previously authorized to report to their respective courts, e.g., those concerned with the payments and release of salaries and allowances in the Judiciary, shall continue to report to their respective courts as the need arises.

Attached herein as Annex A are the hotlines, and available email addresses and Facebook accounts of all courts nationwide.

Law enforcement agents are strongly advised to let our justices, judges and their respective skeleton-staff pass through checkpoints as they all likewise have a constitutional mandate to perform.

All provisions of prior issuances inconsistent herewith are deemed repealed.

FOR STRICT COMPLIANCE.

Parañaque City, 20 March 2020

(Signed)
Hon. Diosdado M. Peralta
Chief Justice

In furtherance of AC 26-2020 earlier issued today, upon the recommendation of the Office of the Court Administrator, based on its monitoring of the situation and consultation from executive judges, presiding judges and court personnel, including officials of the Supreme Court, all court hearings in the first, second and collegiate courts are hereby suspended beginning 13 March 2020 until 18 March 2020. During this period, Justices and judges are directed to conduct the following:

1. Reset hearings and inform parties of the new schedule;
2. Disinfect court premises;
3. Pen orders and decisions;
4. Act on other matters pending before their respective courts.

Justices and judges are likewise expected to continue to report to the Office of the Court Administrator any development or circumstance regarding the spread of Covid-19.

(signed)
Chief Justice Diosdado M. Peralta