MANILA, Philippines --- President Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law a measure allowing the appointment of judges-at-large as the government moves to address the overload of cases in trial courts across the country. Duterte signed Republic Act 11459 or the Judges-at-Large Act of 2019 on August 30, a copy of which was shared with the media only Wednesday. The new law allows the appointment of 100 regional trial judges-at-large, and 50 municipal trial judges-at-large. It mandated the Supreme Court (SC) to assign the judges-at-large as acting or assisting judges to any regional and municipal trial court in the Philippines "as public interest may require." The length of the temp...
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