The Workplace of the Courts Administrator (OCA) has requested judges to current a list of instances of violence in opposition to attorneys.

Court docket administrator Midas Marquez has given first- and second-level court docket judges 10 days to finish the investigation, in keeping with the round launched on Tuesday.

The primary-level courts are the metropolitan courts of first occasion, the municipal courts of first occasion, the municipal courts of first occasion in cities and the municipal courts of first occasion whereas the second-level courts are the regional courts of first occasion. .

Chief Justice Diosdado Peralta’s directive to the OCA in January to handle considerations about continued assaults on attorneys and judges has led to the creation of a database restricted to instances involving attorneys who’ve been harassed, threatened, attacked or killed.

“This investigation will give the Court docket an outline of the standing of those instances in order that they are often handled with due diligence,” mentioned the OCA.

At the least 54 attorneys have been killed since President Rodrigo Duterte took energy in 2016, in keeping with human rights attorneys.

On Tuesday, a minimum of 62 attorneys, together with former judges, referred to as on the SC to assist finish assaults on members of the authorized occupation.

They particularly referred to as on the Excessive Court docket to “step in” following assaults, each verbal and bodily, in opposition to these difficult the constitutionality of the 2020 Anti-Terrorism Regulation over potential dangers to civil liberties. – Information BM, GMA