1% of national budget: judiciary’s woes continue.

Judiciary’s budget woes continue, 2011 budget offers no solution - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos


Read the link above. Note the following woes of the courts:


1. The judiciary has not been given even one percent of the national budget in the last four years and worse, there is a high probability in 2011 of a decreased budget.

2. The basic headaches of the courts are funds for the P10.3 billion allocated for personnel services; the P416 million fund for retirees; P1.3 million health allowances for workers; and, the P1.875 billion proposed budget for capital outlay, including the building of a Manila City hall of justice.

3. Most local courts have only two computers per court, while the ideal number of computer should be at least six units. He said this results in backlog of cases to as much as 4,000 cases, when the ideal number of backlog should be only about 500 cases.

4. The ratio of judge to inhabitants right now is 1:50,000, when the ideal ratio is 1:10,000.