Empowered Civil Society Participation in

Monitoring Judicial and Quasi-Judicial

Bodies Towards Enhanced Integrity of
the Justice System

Section 16 of the Bill of Rights: All persons shall have the right to speedy disposition of their cases before all judicial, quasi-judicial, or
administrative bodies.
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Tan v. People, G.R. No. 173637, April 21, 2009.
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Lim v. CA, G.R. No. 131483, October 26, 1999.
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Corpuz v. Sandiganbayan, 442 SCRA 294, 312-313 (2004).
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Rule 129, Section 1: Judicial notice, when mandatory. A court shall take judicial notice, without the introduction of evidence, of ( ... ) the
official acts of legislative, executive and judicial departments of the Philippines, the laws of nature, the measure of time, and the geographical
divisions.
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Oktubre v. Velasco, A.M. No. MTJ 02-1444, July 22, 2004.
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Agpalo, Legal andJudicial Ethics 79.
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Section 7. The right of the people to information on matters of public concern shall be recognized. Access to official records, and to documents
and papers pertaining to officials acts, transactions, or decisions, as well as to government research data used as basis for policy development, shall
be afforded the citizen, subject to such limitations as may be provided by law.
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Section. 11. Certified copies.The clerk shall prepare, for any person demanding the same, a copy certified under the seal of the court of any
paper, record, order, judgment, or entry in his office, proper to be certified, for the fees prescribed by these rules.
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Supreme Court En Banc Resolution dated February 14, 2012, In Re: Production of Court Records and Documents and the Attendance of Court
officials and employees as witnesses under the subpoenas of February 10, 2012 and the various letters for the Impeachment Prosecution Panel dated
January 19 and 25, 2012.
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Id.
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Id.
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Maria Josefina G. San Juan-Torres, A Pro-Poor Judiciary, available at
http://ca.judiciary.gov.ph/index.php?action=mnuactual_contents&ap=j40120 (last accessed July 27, 2016).
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Id.
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Id. at 540.
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Canon 2, Code of Judicial Conduct.
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Agpalo, supra note 7 at 611.
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