Practice question
A fee-setting proposal under RA 12233 expressly considers only maximizing judicial income and refuses to consider access for poor litigants or capacity to pay. Officials say internal revenue is the sole statutory objective. Which is correct?
- Revenue is the only objective in Section 6.
- Section 6 also expressly identifies access to justice and capacity to pay, so the asserted sole-objective reading is wrong.
- Capacity to pay may never be considered.
- Poor litigants are expressly excluded from judicial access.
- The fee objectives apply only to foreign courts.
Legal references
- Republic Act No. 12233, Judiciary Fiscal Autonomy Act, August 14, 2025: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/2/99555 Section 6.
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