It grants accredited private individuals or organizations the power and the task to give protection to the petitioners or the witnesses, previously limited to the Justice Department and other government agencies. Its four forms of interim relief could be powerful tools for getting evidence and witnesses, the difficulty of which continues to be a major stumbling block in cases where the accused is a government personnel. All of the above provisions are “deviations” from traditional legal principles which could impact on the prevailing state of impunity. The effectiveness of these remedies depends largely, however, on the will of the judiciary in asserting the implementation of these orders in the face of a recalcitrant respondent.

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