SC CIRCULAR NO. 17-99, March 10, 1999

10 March 1999

The Supreme Court En Banc has directed the
Office of the Court Administrator, through its Resolution dated 3 March
1998 in Administrative Matter No. 98-2-58-RTC (Re: Report on the
Judicial Audit conducted in the Regional Trial Court, Branches 22 and
27, Iloilo City) “to conduct a personnel accounting of the local
employees presently assigned in the lower courts and determine the
necessity of their detail in the said courts, and thereafter prepare a
circular that henceforth, all requests for detail of locally-funded
employees shall be confirmed by said Office.”

The Office of the Court Administrator has already
received the responses of the judges concerned on the names of the
locally-funded employees detailed or assigned to their respective courts
and their position titles and statement of assigned duties. This Office
is at present undertaking the study as to the necessity of the detail
or assignment of 747 locally-funded personnel to the lower courts.

In the interim, the written clearance or
approval of this Office shall be required for proposed details or
assignments of locally-funded personnel to the courts before they are
allowed to work therein. Communications forwarding these proposed
details or assignments to this Office shall specifically state the
reasons for the proposed personnel movement, the duties to be assigned
to the employee involved and the current court caseload.

For strict compliance.