Hot and humid court rooms

LASERNA CUEVA-MERCADER

& Associates Law Offices

Unit 15, Star Arcade, C.V. Starr Avenue, Philamlife Village

Las Pinas City 1740 Philippines

Tel/Fax: (63 2) 8725443 & 8462539; Mobile: (63) 915 9668587

September 28, 2012

Ordinary Mail

The Honorable  City Mayor

City Hall

Muntinlupa City

Metro Manila

Re:   Additional Electric Fans for MTC, Branch 80, Muntinlupa City

MABUHAY:

When I appeared last week at the Metropolitan Trial Court, Branch 80, of Muntinlupa City, the sala of the said court was overcrowded with litigants, witnesses, lawyers, and others, because of its overloaded trial calendar of more than 60 cases set for that day. This is the case in most first-level courts in Metro Manila. And problems like this are beyond the control of the Presiding Judge.

The aircon of the sala could not bear to remedy the suffocating and sickening human heat and humidity in the room. Seniors and old lawyers with heart and lung ailments, like me (age 58), had a hard time stranding up in the midst of the heat and humidity in the room while waiting for our cases to be called and while mentally preparing for our own trials.

The most that we, old lawyers, can do is to request your good office to urgently help the said court by providing it with at least four (4) new wall election fans (two [2] each wall) for the benefit of the public attending the hearings and one (1) new stand fan for the Presiding Judge. I know the presiding judge, too, suffers in silence in that kind of environment while controlling and managing the trials of the multifarious cases set for each perspiring day in his sala.

  

(Perhaps all trial courts of your city should ultimately be given additional back-up electric fans as suggested above).

In closing, I congratulate your city, under your leadership, for having one of the most beautiful and one of the newest and cleanest halls of justice in the country, for which I am proud of your great city. Thank you. Have a blessed life.

Sincerely,

Atty. Manuel J. Laserna Jr.

Cc:       Executive Judge                           Presiding Judges

Regional Trial Court             Metropolitan  Trial Court

Hall of Justice                                    Branch 80     

Muntinlupa City                               Hall of Justice

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