FIRST DRAFT: REVISED RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE

The Supreme Court constituted the Core Committee for the National Conference for the Revision of the Rules of Civil Procedure. The move to revise the present Rules is aimed at improving our judicial process by making it more cost and time efficient both for the Courts and the litigants, and hopefully do away with procedural glitches which unduly lengthen the prompt disposition of cases.

As stated in the website of the SC, the overall controlling objective of the Core Committee is to draft and propose a revised Rules of Civil Procedure that gives true justice in all kinds of civil actions before the courts. And justice is done only if the revised rules substantially ensure the following:

1.       The parties in every case are placed on equal footing;

2.       The costs of litigation are reduced;

3.       The courts’ time and resources are wisely distributed among cases in proportion to

a.       the amounts involved;

b.      the complexity of the issues raised; and

c.       and the public interests in their resolution;

4.       All cases are speedily heard and decided; and

5.       The impartiality of the courts is enhanced and safeguarded.

The Core Committee has published the First Draft of the Revised Rules of Civil Procedure for public comment. Once approved by the Supreme Court En Banc, the new rules will be called the Philippine Code of Procedure.

Download the First Draft Here!