“The Justice Secretary has vowed to speed up and unclog the notoriously slow justice system of the Philippines,” said the lawyers’ statement sent to the Inquirer, citing Remulla’s two earlier circulars aimed at improving justice in the country by unclogging the courts of unnecessary cases that had piled up and clogged the system.
“We have filed our petition for review on July 29 last year. It was dismissed on August 29 based on mistaken and trivial procedural grounds—a supposed deficiency which we have actually complied with. We stated as much in a motion for reconsideration we filed on August 30. Finally, we filed an urgent motion to resolve the petition on January 16 this year. But to date, the Justice Secretary has yet to act,” said the statement.
These were Circular No. 008, directing prosecutors to immediately withdraw information or criminal charge in cases where there is no “reasonable certainty of conviction,” and DOJ Circular No. 027, which underscores the power of the Secretary to review resolutions of prosecutors even when a petition for review had not been filed.
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