| CIRCULAR
NO. 7[1986]CIRCULAR
NO. 7
TO: ALL
EXECUTIVE
JUDGES AND JUDGES OF THE REGIONAL TRIAL COURTS
SUBJECT:
PAIRING
SYSTEM IN THE REGIONAL TRIAL COURTS.
Quoted hereunder,
for your ready reference, are the provisions of Circular No. 7 dated
September
23, 1974 of this Court, to wit:chanroblesvirtuallawlibrary
"VIII.
Pairing
System
"A
pairing system
shall be established whereby every Branch shall be considered as paired
with another Branch. In the event of vacancy in any Branch, or of the
absence
or disability of the Judge thereof, all incidental or interlocutory
matters
pertaining to it may be acted upon the Judge of the other Branch paired
with it. The latter may likewise conduct trials or hearings on the
merits
in criminal cases with detention prisoners assigned to the other Branch
as well as in the other kinds of cases, subject to the conformity of
the
parties.
"For the
purpose
of the pairing system, Branch I shall be paired with Branch II, Branch
III with Branch IV and so on and any Branch in a station left without
pair
shall be paired with a Branch presided by the Executive Judge in
addition
to the latter's regular pair. In case of vacancy in the two Branches
paired
with each other, or prolonged absence of both Presiding Judges of the
paired
Branches, the incidental or interlocutory matters pertaining to any or
both Branches shall be acted upon by the Executive Judge. 'Prolonged
absence' means absence of one month or more.
"In
stations or groupings
where the Branches are irregularly numbered, the foregoing rule shall
be
applied in the most analogous manner.
"IX.
This Circular
shall not apply to single salas whose territorial jurisdictions are
definitely
fixed. x x x"
Executive Judges are
hereby reminded to strictly comply with the aforementioned Circular and
to immediately inform this Court, through the Office of the Court
Administartor,
of the pairing Judges in their respective stations.
Please be guided
accordingly.
June 3, 1986.
[Sgd.]
LEO
D. MEDIALDEACourt
Administrator
|
