Katarungang Pambarangay

There has long been a traditional, local system of resolving disputes. Presidential Decree No. 1508 signed by President Ferdinand Marcos on June 11, 1978, talks an unofficial "time-honored tradition of amicably settling disputes among family and barangay members at the barangay level without judicial resources". Alfredo Flores Tadiar was the principal author of Presidential Decree 1508, The Katarungang Pambarangay Law, and he also wrote its implementing rules, requiring prior conciliation as a condition for judicial recourse. For 12 years (1980–1992), he was a member of the Committee of Consultants, Bureau of Local Government Supervision, which oversaw the nationwide operations of the Katarungang Pambarangay Law. Under the decree, the body was known as Lupong Tagapayapa . This decree was replaced by the Local Government Code of 1991. ==Operation, rules, and procedures==

The Lupon Tagapamayapa is the body that comprises the barangay justice system and on it sit the barangay captain and 10 to 20 members. The body is normally constituted every three years and holds office until a new body is constituted in the third year. In barangays where a majority of members belong to an indigenous people of the Philippines, traditional dispute mechanisms such as a council of elders may replace the barangay judicial system. ==See also==