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==[[Quezon News]]==
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'''Quezon mediation program to decongest courts'''
'''PCA expects increase in coconut production this year'''
*Source: http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php/news/provincial/27021-quezon-mediation-program-to-decongest-courts
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R04A&article=631333351150
*By: Gemi Formaran
*By: Carlo P. Gonzaga
*''March 30, 2012''
*''April 02, 2012''


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.
LUCENA CITY, Quezon- The regional office of the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) here is optimistic that their target of coconut production this year will double if not triple because of the different programs it has been implementing.


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.
Among the projects the PCA have been undertaken are the intensified planting of coconut seedlings and distribution of agricultural salt as fertilizer to existing coconut trees.


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 PCA is also pushing for the establishment of a laboratory for the Brontispa, the pest that has been affecting and causing the loss of coconut trees to hasten and effectively eliminate the pest.


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.
Moreover, the PCA is not only focusing on programs that would improve coconut farming but as well as steps that would help improve the lives of coconut farmers particularly those who are indigents.


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.
These include establishment of cooperatives, conduct of livelihood trainings for farmers including the women sector, and educational assistance to children of small coconut farmers.
 
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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