According to Philippine Daily Inquirer columnist Mon Tulfo, it is not so difficult to win a court case at least in the Court of Appeals. He outlines in detail how the system works.
“Two employees at the Court of Appeals (CA) make a killing selling decisions to litigants who can afford to pay. These corrupt employees are assigned at a certain section in the CA.
“When an appeal is sent to the appellate court, the papers are filed in that section. The two employees contact the litigant and offer to “fix” the case in the litigant’s favor. The duo then gets in touch with the assistants of a justice to whom the appeal is assigned.
“Each justice is provided with lawyer subordinates who write decisions for the justice.
“Because of the volume of cases they handle, most justices leave the crafting of the decision to their assistants. Some just sign the decisions without reading them, according to my CA mole.
“The innocent justice, who’s busy making money on other big revenue-making cases, signs the decision and is left out of the deal.
“Most justices are wise to the ways of their assistants, and make them the conduits to litigants.
“That’s the way many cases are decided at the Court of Appeals. That’s how our justice system works.”