Chief Justice Alexander G. Gesmundo has assured that the judiciary will be “dynamic and responsive” to the needs of the people, particularly by the “underserved and marginalized,” for free access to the courts, legal assistance, and dispensation of real-time justice.
Thus, he said: “We need to find new and better ways of delivering on our mandate. We must provide an effective platform for Filipinos from all walks of life to articulate their rights when injustice has been perpetrated, to attain redress and expect fair resolution through judicial action, and to freely partake in the judicial process undeterred by traditional barriers of inequality, such as education, poverty, gender, geography, ethnicity, and even religion.
He pointed out that by directing the CLEP “towards the benefit of the marginalized sectors of society, we aspired to inculcate among our students the value of legal professional social responsibility and public service, and at the same time, extend the availability of legal assistance to those who do not have the ability and resources to secure the services of counsel.”
He said the Rules of Court guarantee the right of pauper litigants to free access to courts by exempting them from payment of legal fees.
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