DIRECTING THE PHILIPPINE JUDICIAL ACADEMY (PHILJA), THE JUDICIAL AND BAR COUNCIL (JBC), SUPREME COURT-OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES (SC-OAS), OFFICE OF THE COURT ADMINISTRAT…

WHEREAS, on December 9, 2003, the Supreme Court En Bane approved the Strategic Gender
and Development (GAD) Mainstreaming Plan for the Philippine Judicial
System (With Annual GAD Plan and Budget for 2004) prepared by the
Committee on Gender Responsiveness in the Judiciary (CGRJ);

WHEREAS, one of the approved activities under the Plan is the collection of sex-disaggregated data;

WHEREAS, the generation of
sex-disaggregated data determine the representation of women and men in
the Philippine Judiciary which will be the basis for the conduct of
gender-related interventions;

WHEREAS, these generated and gathered data will be uploaded in the Online Gender Corner for reference;

WHEREAS, to facilitate these
activities, the offices in the Philippine Judiciary need to gather and
generate sex-disaggregated data on a yearly basis;

WHEREAS, the Philippine Judicial
Academy (PHILJA) should provide the figures on the number of trained
female and male judges and lawyers;

WHEREAS, the Judicial and Bar
Council should provide sex-disaggregated data on the female and male
applicants to the Bench and the number of appointed female-male Justices
and judges;

WHEREAS, the Supreme Court Office
of Administrative Services should provide the number of female and male
employees (regular, casual, co-terminus and contractual);

WHEREAS, the Office of the Court
Administrator-Court Management Office (OCA-CMO) through the Court
Administration Management Information System (CAMIS) should (l) generate
data on the number of cases involving violence against women, child
abuse, drug user (minors), rape with minor victims, rape with minor
victim & accused, rape under R.A. 8353, violation of the Sexual
Harassment Act and all other child and family criminal cases which
should be segregated between the number of female and male judges
handling such cases; and (2) generate the number of case inflow and case
outflow in designated family courts;

WHEREAS, the Office of the Court
Administrator-Office of Administrative Services (OCA-OAS) should
initiate the gathering of sex-disaggregated data on the number of judges
and court personnel in Lower Courts;

WHEREAS, the Office of the Bar
Confidant should possess vital sex-disaggregated data on the applicants
to the Bar, Bar Passers, Bar Topnotchers and lawyers;

NOW, THEREFORE, the Philippine
Judicial Academy (PHILJA), the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC), Supreme
Court-Office of Administrative Services (SC-OAS), Office of the Court
Administrator- Court Management Office (OCA-CMO), Office of the Court
Administrator- Office of Administrative Services (OCA-OAS) and Office of
the Bar Confidant are hereby directed to:

(a) to gather sex-disiggregated data for the Year 2004-
2005 to be submitted to the Committee on Gender
Responsiveness in the Judiciary in October 2006; and

(b) to gather and generate sex-disaggregated data on a
yearly basis and to submit these data on the Second Week
of January of the following year to the Committee on
Gender Responsiveness in the Judiciary which is the
repository of sex-disaggregated data in the Judiciary.

September 19, 2006