What are the privileged documents and communications of the Courts?

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To summarize these rules, the following are privileged documents or
communications, and are not subject to disclosure:

(1) Court actions such as the result of the raffle of cases and the
actions taken by the Court on each case included in the agenda of the
Court’s session on acts done material to pending cases, except where a party
litigant requests information on the result of the raffle of the case, pursuant
to Rule 7, Section 3 of the IRSC;

(2) Court deliberations or the deliberations of the Members in court
sessions on cases and matters pending before the Court;

(3) Court records which are “predecisional” and “deliberative” in
nature, in particular, documents and other communications which are part of
or related to the deliberative process, i.e., notes, drafts, research papers,
internal discussions, internal memoranda, records of internal deliberations,
and similar papers.

(4) Confidential Information secured by justices, judges, court
officials and employees in the course of their official functions, mentioned
in (2) and (3) above, are privileged even after their term of office.

(5) Records of cases that are still pending for decision are privileged
materials that cannot be disclosed, except only for pleadings, orders and
resolutions that have been made available by the court to the general public.

(6) The principle of comity or inter-departmental courtesy demands
that the highest officials of each department be exempt from the compulsory
processes of the other departments.

(7) These privileges belong to the Supreme Court as an institution, not
to any justice or judge in his or her individual capacity. Since the Court is
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higher than the individual justices or judges, no sitting or retired justice or
judge, not even the Chief Justice, may claim exception without the consent
of the Court.

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