Amendment to Item No. A.2 of Administrative Circular No. 10-94 Dated 29 June 1994

January 2, 2001

SUPREME COURT ADMINISTRATIVE CIRCULAR NO. 2-01

 

For a more complete and reliable information on the caseflow in the Lower Courts, Item No. A.2 of Administrative Circular No. 10-94 dated 29 June 1994, providing for the semestral docket inventory procedure, is hereby amended to read as follows:

A. Docket Inventory

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2. In order to amplify and make more effective the circular, all trial judges and their clerks of court or branch clerks of court shall observe the following docket inventory procedure:

a. Every trial judge and his/her clerk of court/branch clerk of court shall submit not later than the last week of February and the last week of August of each year a tabulation of all pending cases, which shall indicate on a horizontal column the following data:

1) Case Number

2) Case Title

3) Nature of Case

4) Date Filed/Raffled

5) Date of Pre-trial (in civil cases) or Arraignment (in criminal cases)

6) Date of Initial Hearing

7) Last Trial or Court Action Taken and Date Thereof

8) Date Submitted for Decision CcTIAH

b. The docket inventory shall end with a joint certification by the trial judge and his/her clerk of court or branch clerk of court that they have personally undertaken an inventory of cases pending in their court, and that they have examined each case record and initialled the last page thereof. The actual inclusive dates when the inventory was conducted shall be indicated in the said certification.

c. The Tabulation and Joint Certification shall be in the following form:

Subsequent docket inventory shall be prepared and accomplished to conform with the revised tabulated form, effective the semestral period of 1 July 2000 to 31 December 2000.

Strict compliance with this Administrative Circular, which shall take effect on January 15, 2001, is enjoined.

Issued this 2nd day of January, 2001.

(SGD.) HILARIO G. DAVIDE, JR.Chief Justice