PHILIPPINES JUDICIAL REFORM
September 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLA COMPREHENSIVE scheme to boost the efficiency and fairness of the Philippines' judicial system is to receive a US$21.9 million World Bank loan. The money will help finance a Filipino Supreme Court's judicial reform programme, improving a judiciary that has, said the bank, suffered from caseload "delays, corruption, weak administrative structures, outdated technology and deficient facilities, and underdeveloped human resources." The programme includes trialling pilot mobile courts that will hear cases in remote regions of the archipelago, which ...
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