Raffle of newly-filed cases in ECQ areas resumes through videoconferencing

The raffle of newly-filed cases in courts located in areas under enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) will resume through videoconferencing after being suspended last month, the Office of the Court Administrator (OCA) said Friday.

In a circular, Court Administrator Jose Midas Marquez said all courts in ECQ areas shall resume the raffle of newly-filed cases, including “unraffled” cases. The judge-on-duty arrangement that was set up when raffling was suspended is now discontinued.

READ: OCA Circular No. 94-2020 addressed all concerned litigants, judges and court personnel of the first and second level courts, and members of the Bar on the resumption of raffle of cases through videoconferencing pic.twitter.com/quQTLA2z6m

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All urgent matters that have to be acted upon on any given day shall be referred to the Executive Judge for appropriate action, or in the absence of the Executive Judge, to the Vice Executive Judge,” the circular states.