ADJUDICATION OF AGRARIAN

REFORM MATTERS
The jurisdiction of DAR is two fold:
The first is essentially executive and pertains
to the enforcement and administration of the
laws, carrying them into practical operation
and enforcing their due observance; and
The second is judicial and involves the
determination of rights and obligations of the
parties. Jurisdiction over agrarian disputes
lies with the DARAB.
What are agrarian disputes?
Agrarian dispute as defined in the Section 3 (d) of
CARL refers to any controversy relating to tenurial
arrangements, whether leasehold, tenancy, stewardship
or otherwise, over lands devoted to agriculture,
including disputes concerning farmworkers associations
or representation of persons in negotiating, fixing,
maintaining, changing or seeking to arrange terms or
conditions of such tenurial arrangements. It includes any
controversy relating to compensation of lands acquired
under this Act and other terms and conditions of transfer
of ownership from landowners to farmworkers, tenants
and other agrarian reform beneficiaries, whether the
disputants stand in the proximate relation of farm
operator and beneficiary, landowner and tenant, or lessor
and lessee.
The DAR has also exclusive jurisdiction over
agrarian law implementation (ALI)