A stable and accountable justice system remains essential in steering the Philippine economy toward a high-growth path, creating an enabling environment for business and investment, among others

The justice sector’s initiatives towards addressing fragmentation in justice administration, promoting inclusive access, and mobilizing resources for persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) have advanced key sector targets. To sustain these gains and address remaining challenges, the sector will pursue institutional transformation and promote restorative justice through inter-agency collaboration, digitalization, localized justice delivery, expanded legal services in underserved areas, and implementation of multi-disciplinary rehabilitation mechanisms.

Subchapter 13.2 aims to achieve the following outcomes through specific strategies:

Quality and efficiency in disposition of cases improved
  • Expand coordination mechanisms to improve sector efficiency and accountability
  • Create and enhance evidence repositories to store and handle evidence in criminal cases
  • Improve human resource allocation in the justice sector
  • Advance the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanisms at all levels
  • Maximize the use of digital technology and build a robust, efficient, and disaster-resilient ICT architecture for the justice sector
  • Implement the integration of the unified crime index uniformity of crime data
  • Streamline the rules on the disposition specialized and multi-party cases
  • Automate consumer complaints handling
  • Encourage private sector-led redress mechanisms
Access to quality free or affordable legal services by Filipinos improved 
  • Facilitate accesss to free legal services
  • Develop referral system and enhance free legal aid public directories
  • Expand Justice on Wheels Program
  • Strengthen victim legal protection and assistance
  • Expand access to non-financial bail
Quality of life of Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDL) improved, and productive re-integration of PDL in the community ensured
  • Undertake construction and repair of penal facilities
  • Expand the e-Dalaw system, livelihood and entrepreneurial opportunities for PDL, and multi-disciplinary rehabilitation mechanisms
  • Conduct periodic review of preventive imprisonment
  • Identify classes of PDL, who may be qualified for early release, and expand access to parole and probation for certain classes of offenses
  • Operationalize the unified referral and monitoring system for former PDL

 

Full Version of the PDP 2023-2028 Midterm Update : https://pdp.degov.ph/philippine-development-plan-2023-2028-midterm-update/