Exactly three months ago, we gathered around 500 people from the different disadvantaged sectors of our society -- farmers, fisherfolks, women and children, migrant workers, the informal sector, laborers, the urban poor, our indigenous peoples, the elderly -- for the opening of our Forum on Increasing Access to Justice: Bridging Gaps, Removing Roadblocks. On its closing, we pledged not to forfeit even a fraction of time before aggregatingthe ideas proposed in the Forum and putting the doables in our rulebooks.

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