CREATING A PRESIDENTIAL COMMITTEE ON JUDICIAL REORGANIZATIONS

WHEREAS, to improve judicial
services, it has become imperative to reorganize the Judiciary and thereby best
serve the public interest.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E.
MARCOS, President and Prime Minister of the Philippines, by virtue of the
powers vested in me by law, do hereby create a Presidential Committee which
shall formulate a plan on the reorganization of the Judiciary, to be composed
of Chief Justice Enrique M. Fernando as Chairman and Minister of Justice
Ricardo C . Puno as Co-Chairman, with the following as members:

Justice Ramon C. Aquino
Justice Ameurfina A. Melencio-Herrera
Justice Felix Q. Antonio, and
Deputy Minister of Justice Jesus N. Borromeo

The Chairman, the Co-Chairman
and the members of the Committee shall serve without remuneration, and their
positions shall be purely honorary in character.

The Commission shall, within
thirty (30) days from the issuance hereof, submit to the President and Prime
Minister a reorganization plan for the entire Judiciary which shall embrace all
lower courts, including the Court of Appeals, the Courts of First Instance, the
city and municipal courts, and all special courts, but excluding the Sandiganbayan.

The reorganization plan thus
submitted shall be made the basis for appropriate legislation for the judicial
reorganization herein mentioned.

In the performance of its
functions, the Presidential Committee shall be assisted by the respective
staffs of the Chairman and Co-Chairman.

Done in the City of Manila, this
7th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty.

By the President:

(SGD.) JUAN C. TUVERA
Presidential Assistant