CIRCULAR
NO. 12 [1978]
TO: ALL
JUDGES OF THE COURTS OF FIRST INSTANCE, CIRCUIT CRIMINAL COURTS,
JUVENILE
AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS COURTS, COURTS OF AGRARIAN RELATIONS, CITY AND
MUNICIPAL
COURTS AND THEIR CLERKS OF COURT
SUBJECT:
KATARUNGANG PAMBARANGAY LAW AND RULES.
For your information
and guidance, enclosed herewith are copies of Presidential Decree No.
1508,
otherwise know as the Katarungang Pambarangay Law promulgated on June
11,
1978 and its implementing rules. The decree expressly provides that it
shall take effect six (6) months after its promulgation or on December
11, 1978. However, pending the organization of the conciliation bodies
created under said decree, the barangay system of settlement of
disputes
cannot be implemented.
In view whereof,
you are hereby directed to continue as heretofore to receive cases
which
would fall within the authority of said conciliation bodies until
further
orders from this Court.
October 30, 1978.
[Sgd.]
FRED
RUIZ CASTROChief
Justice
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