A case brought under administrative law in the form of a quasi-judicial proceeding by an agency of a non-judicial branch of government, or, the Office of the Court Administrator. Normally, such cases are internal disciplinary matters—court cases criminal and civil can be brought alongside them if warranted.
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Moot—changed circumstances have rendered the case of intellectual interest only; no ruling will have a practical effect on the law or jurisprudence.
An electronic database of cases at the lower levels of the judiciary. eCourt was seldom used before the COVID-19 pandemic.[3] Includes "eFiling", a way to submit pleadings and other court documents electronically.[4]
As special rules apply to the release of the rollo, the office of each member of the Supreme Court is allowed to take a copy of the rollo. This is the expediente.[5]
The dispositive portion of a Court's ruling, coming at the very end of the ruling. Cf. conclusion. This word has the same meaning in the modern Spanish judicial system.[6]
An indictment.[8] In the United States, which originated the term, there are grand juries, and indictments are more common, while an information is a rare type of criminal action brought in the absence of a grand jury.[9] However, the Philippines has no grand juries (and, indeed, no juries of any kind), so "information" is essentially synonymous with "indictment".[10]
A judge without a permanent sala. Under R.A. 11459, such judges have all the rights of regular RTC judges, and the same salaries. They are also chosen by the President upon the advice of the JBC as other RTC judges are.[13]
An agency of the executive branch that exercises some judicial functions and before which a minimum of due process is required.[16]Cf.administrative case.
The system by which cases are assigned to judges in multi-sala courts. As of 1974, "[n]o case may be assigned to any branch without being raffled."[17] As of 2013, raffles can be conducted electronically via "eCourt".[18] The gambling-related word "raffle" comes from the sources of randomness required by the Supreme Court: preferably a roulette wheel is to be used, but if that's not available, a bingo or juetengtambiolo is permissible.[19]
Original meaning: a set of documents rolled up for easier archival and transit, or a scroll
Spanish
Short for rollo de casación (cassation archive) or rollo de apelación (appeal archive),[20] the rollo is the complete archive of a particular case, including documents received from a lower court and anything submitted regarding the case, directly to any Philippine court, though most often used in relation to the higher courts.[5] The term has its origin in the Real Audiencia de Manila, and is still used in the modern Supreme Court of Spain (Tribunal Supremo) and Spanish judicial system.[21]Cf.expediente.
Courtroom, though used only to refer to a specific branch of a Regional Trial Court, and not to refer to higher courts, unlike in Spain, where sala remains in use for all courts (e.g. in the set phrase la sala acuerda[22]—lit. the chamber agrees, or to describe a division of the Spanish Supreme Court, e.g. la tercera Sala—"Branch №3".) An acting judge serving in a temporary or acting capacity is said to be without a sala.[1] Some RTC branches have only a single sala.[17] Also cf.judges-at-large.
An undocketed case, undocketed because, for example, the docket fee has not yet been paid.[5] Undocketed cases are still numbered, and may be ruled on at the discretion of the court, for example, Fletcher v. Bureau of Corrections has no G.R. number, but is instead cited as UDK-14071.[26]
References
^ abGarcia v. Macaraig, Jr., A.C. No. 198-J (Supreme Court of the Philippines May 31, 1971) ("Respondent was, like every lawyer who gets his first appointment to the bench, eager to assume his judicial duties and rid himself of the stigma of being ’a judge without a sala’, but forces and circumstances beyond his control prevented him from discharging his judicial duties.").
^"About". Integrated Bar of the Philippines. Retrieved June 25, 2020. The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) is the official organization of all Philippine lawyers.
Ang Tibay and National Workers Brotherhood v. The Court of Industrial Relations and National Labor Union, Inc., G.R. No. L-46496 (Supreme Court of the Philippines February 27, 1940), Text.
^Yaranon v. Rulloda, A.M. No. P-94-1045 (Supreme Court of the Philippines, Third Division March 21, 1995) ("TSN, 7 September 1994, pp. 2 & 4; TSN, 14 September 1994, pp. 1-2 & 5; Folder No. 3, Transcript of Stenographic Notes in A.M. No. P-94-1045."), Text.
