SC CIRCULAR NO. 12-99, February 25, 1999

For the information and guidance of all -concerned, quoted
hereiinder is the resolution of the Court En Bane dated February 2, 1999 in A.M.
No. 99-1-04-SC – Re : Granting Incentives to Judges who are given Additional
Duty of Hearing and Deciding Cases of other Branches of their Courts or of other
Courts of the same Level.

“Effective immediately, Judges of Regional Trial Courts (RTC),
Metropolitan Trial Courts (MeTC), Municipal Trial Courts in Cities, Municipal
Trial Courts (MTC) and Municipal Circuit Trial Courts (MCTC) who are given
additional assignment of hearing and deciding cases of other branches of the
RTC, MeTC or MTCC, or of other MTC or MCTC, as the case may be, shall be
entitled to an additional expense allowance at the rate of Five Hundred (P500) a
day for every day rendered in the other branch or branches but in no case to
exceed Six Thousand Pesos (P6,000) a month, and chargeable against the regular
appropriations for representation and travel allowances for such other branch or
branches which are deemed savings in such item for the duration of the vacancy
of such branch or branches.

In addition to the foregoing, such judges shall be given a
monthly hardship allowance of Five Hundred Pesos (P500) for every additional
branch that is assigned to them, chargeable against the savings of the lower
courts or the Judiciary Development Fund.

City of Manila, 2 February 1999.”

February 25,1999.