March 12, 1996: the Philippine Judicial Academy was created

On March 12, 1996, the Philippine Judicial Academy was created by the Supreme Court in accordance with Republic Act No. 8557 as a “training school for justices, judges, court personnel, lawyers and aspirants to judicial posts."

It is the Academy’s mission to bring about an institutionalized, integrated and professionalized system of continuing judicial education for justices, judges, court personnel and lawyers aspiring for judicial positions.