Supreme Court Chief Justice Alexander G. Gesmundo strongly asked the officers and members of the Philippine Bar Association, the country’s oldest voluntary organization of lawyers, to support the Supreme Court’s five-year reform program for the judiciary.
The PBA officers and members of the board of trustees and council advisers, which was founded in 1891, took their oath of office before Gesmundo.
The chief magistrate reiterated the reform program under the Strategic Plan for Judicial Innovations is aimed at dispensing justice “efficiently, effectively, and timely.”
Gesmundo said the SPJI for 2022 to 2027 “is anchored on four guiding principles: Timely and Fair Justice, Transparent and Accountable Justice, Equal and Inclusive Justice, and Technologically Adaptive Management.”
“These principles will propel the Court towards achieving three outcomes: Efficiency, Innovation, and Access,” he stressed.
The oaths of office of the PBA leadership was held at the SC’s session hall last Monday, 6 Feb.
The 2023 PBA officers are Ernestine C.J.D. Villareal-Fernando, president; Joel Raymond R. Ayson, 1st vice president; Peter Irving C. Corvera, 2nd vice president; Joseph Manalo R. Rebano, 3rd vice president; Rodolfo A. Gamboa, vice president for administration and finance; Chrysilla Carissa P. Bautista, treasurer; Victor E.M. Pangilinan, assistant treasurer; Arnel Victor C. Valeña, corporate secretary; and Israfel D. Fagela, assistant corporate secretary.