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==[[Quezon News]]==
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'''NGCP conducts info. campaign in Quezon'''
'''Quezon mediation program to decongest courts'''
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R04A&article=701332907020
*Source: http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php/news/provincial/27021-quezon-mediation-program-to-decongest-courts
*By: Ruel M. Orinday
*By: Gemi Formaran
*''March 28, 2012''
*''March 30, 2012''


LUCENA CITY- National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP), the sole transmission utility in the country, conducted information campaign thru radio guestings in Quezon province on March 26-27.
LUCENA City- Various stakeholders of the local judicial community in Quezon province moved for the establishment of a court-annexed mediation program to decongest cases in courts.


Massive information campaigns focused on the discussion on Republic Act 7832 or the anti-pilferage law and anti electrocution campaigns.
Regional and municipal trial court judges, private lawyers, provincial officials and court employees gathered at the Queen Margarette Hotel here for an orientation conference on court-annexed mediation system as an alternative way for opposing parties to settle disputes.


NGCP Regional Corporate Communication Officer for South Luzon Mr. Nelson S., Bautista said the campaigns aim to reduce the pilferage cases in areas within Quezon and avoid recurrence of electrocution incidents especially this coming summer season. “ As per report there are still incidents of pilferage in the province of Quezon. He also stressed the devastating effect when the towers toppled due to stolen tower parts. The effect are brown-outs and damage to life and properties of the people living in the area” he added.
Justice Marina Buzon, executive secretary of the Phil. Judicial Academy (PHILJA) and acting Philja chief of office for Phil. Mediation Center (PMC) provided the overview of both agencies under the Supreme Court and outlined the rationale for mediation program as an adjunct to the regular court system.


The campaigns thru mass media is a regular activity by NGCP conducted annually during summer aside from other several activities being implemented by NGCP in addressing pilferage and electrocution issues. NGCP believes that media is one of the best instruments in reaching the general public. Aside from tapping local practitioners, NGCP also seek assistance of police officers and implement a collaborative program with them.
According to Buzon, mediation is a process to facilitate communication and negotiation between parties designed to assist them in voluntarily settling their dispute and where the decision and resolution of the dispute rests with the parties themselves. She said a court-annexed mediation is a program where the judge refers the parties to the PMC unit for the mediation of their dispute by accredited mediators.


During interviews in several radio stations in Lucena City, Bautista discussed some tips to avoid electrocution due to high voltage lines. Incidents include kite flying, antennae installation, flaglets hanging and building development underneath transmission lines.
Included in the mandatory coverage for court-annexed mediation are civil cases and civil liability in criminal cases, civil aspect of less grave felonies punishable by correctional penalties not exceeding six years imprisonment where the offended party is a private person, special proceedings for the settlement of estates, and the civil aspect of estafa, theft and libel.
He also appealed to all listeners and residents to help NGCP in protecting facilities. He stressed that these facilities remain under government properties and as Filipino citizen everyone is responsible to take care of it. “Under the law, anyone who violates can be punished of 12 years to 20 years imprisonment and a fine from P50,000 to 100,000” Bautista further explained.


Relative to the campaign, fifty to sixty local radio stations located in Quezon, Batangas, Cavite, Laguna, Camarines Sur, Camarines Norte, Albay and Sorsogon pledged support to this valuable NGCP Advocacy Campaign.
The mediation process takes 30 days and an extension of another 30 days may be granted by the court upon motion by the mediator and with the conformity of the parties in dispute.
 
Buzon said that there are already 113 PMC units nationwide and soon another one will be added in Lucena. She said that Quezon is the only one left with no PMC unit in the whole of Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon) region.
 
Initial establishment of PMC units are in Metro Manila, Cebu and Davao; in the cities of Cagayan de Oro, Baguio, General Santos and Digos and in the provinces of Pampanga, Leyte, South Cotabato, Batangas, Bulacan, Camarines Sur, among others.
 
Gumaca Regional Trial Court Judge Maria Chona Pulgar-Navarro agreed with the court-annexed mediation program as an alternative mode to settle speedily and peacefully disputes of party litigants.
 
Navarro expressed the need for a satellite PMC unit to be set up in Gumaca town, saying their new hall of justice can accommodate its establishment to declog thousands of cases from their court docket.
 
Deputy court administrator Antonio Eugenio Jr. of the Office of the Court Administrator of the Supreme Court also attended the conference and talked about the important roles of the court administrator, judges and court personnel in court-annexed mediation.
 
A basic mediation course will be conducted on May 22-25 here for prospective mediator-applicants.


==Quezon Zip Codes==
==Quezon Zip Codes==
Jesz143
43,102

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