CIRCULAR
NO. 22 [1979]
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:
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE KATARUNGANG PAMBARANGAY LAW.
Effective upon your
receipt of the certification by the Minister of Local Government and
Community
Development that all the barangays within your respective jurisdictions
have organized their Lupons provided for in Presidential Decree No.
1508,
otherwise know as the Katarungang Pambarangay Law, in
implementation
of the barangay system of settlement of disputes, you are hereby
directed
to desist from receiving complaints, petitions, actions or proceedings
in cases falling within the authority of said Lupons.cralaw:red
Circular No. 12 dated
October 30, 1978, issued by the late Chief Justice Fred Ruiz Castro is
to that extent modified.cralaw:red
This Circular takes
effect immediately.cralaw:red
November 9, 1979.
[Sgd.]
ENRIQUE
M. FERNANDOChief
Justice
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