SUPREME COURT
ORIGINAL J.
Exclusive
1. Petitions for the issuance of writs
of Certiorari, Prohibition &
Mandamus (CPM) against:
a) CA
b) Court of Tax Appeals
c) Commission on Elections
d) Commission on Audit
e) Sandiganbayan
f) Ombudsman (in criminal &
non-admin disciplinary
cases)
APPELLATE J.
Concurrent By Notice of Appeal: (ordinary appeal) By Petition for Review On Certiorari:
With CA: 1. Appeals from CA
1. Petitions for writs of CPM 1. From the CA, in all criminal
against: cases involving offenses for 2. Appeals from the Sandiganbayan on PURE
a) National Labor Relations which the penalty imposed is: QUESTIONS OF LAW, except where the penalty
Commission a) reclusion perpetua, imposed is reclusion perpetua, life
b) Civil Service Commission b) life imprisonment, imprisonment, or death.
c) A lesser penalty is
With CA, RTC:
imposed for offenses
1. Petitions for Habeas Corpus & 3. Appeals from judgments or final orders of RTC
committed on the same
Quo Warranto exercising original jurisdiction in the following:
occasion or which arose
2. Actions to prevent and restrain a) Questiosn of Constitutionality of treaties,
out of the same
violations of laws concerning international or executive agreements, laws,
occurrence that gave
monopolies & combinations in PDs, Proclamations, order, instruction,
rise to the more severe
restraint of trade ordinances, or regulations
offense for which the
With CA, Sandiganbayan & RTC: penalty of death is
b) Legality of Tax, impost, assessment, or toll,
1. Petitions for writs of CPM imposed. or any penalty in rlation thereto
relating to acts or omissions of: c) Jurisdiction of any lower court
a) A MTC By special civil action of Certiorari filed d) All cases in which only an error or question
b) A corporation (30) days from notice of the judgment / of law is involved
c) A board final order / resolution sought to be
d) An officer reviewed against the following: 4. Appeals from decisions or final resolutions of
e) A Person the CTA
2. Petitions for issuance of Writ of 1. Commission on Elections
Amparo
3. Petitions for issuance of Writ of 2. Commission on Audit
Habeas Data
With RTC:
1. Actions affecting:
a) Ambassadors
b) Public Ministers
c) Consuls
 COURT OF APPEALS
ORIGINAL J. APPELATE J.
Exclusive Concurrent By Notice of appeal or With Record on Appeal: (Ordinary Appeal) By Automatic Review in:
1. Actions for With the SC: 1. Appeals from RTC, except those appealable to the SC 1. Cases where the RTC imposed the Death
annulment of 1. Petitions for writs of CPM against: 2. Appeals from RTCs on: Penalty
judgments of a) National Labor Relations a) Constitutional, Tax, jurisdictional questions involving questions of
By Petition for Review:
RTC fact which should be appealed first to the CA
Commission 1. Appeals from the Civil Service Commission
3. Appeals from decisions and final orders of the Family Courts
b) Civil Service Commission
2. Petitions for 4. Appeals from RTCs, where the penalty imposed is:
With the SC & RTC: 2. Appeals from RTCs in cases appealed from
CPM involving an 1. Petitions for Habeas Corpus &
d) reclusion perpetua,
MeTCs and MuCTCs which are not a matter
act or omission Quo Warranto e) life imprisonment,
of right
of a quasi- 2. Actions to prevent and restrain f) A lesser penalty is imposed for offenses
judicial agency, violations of laws concerning committed on the same occasion or which
monopolies & combinations in 3. Appeals from awards, judgments, final
unless otherwise arose out of the same occurrence that gave rise
restraint of trade orders, or resolutions of, or authorized by,
provided by law to the more severe offense for which the
quasi-judicial agencies in the exercise of
penalty of death is imposed.
their quasi-judicial functions.
5. Direct Appeal from land registration and cadastral cases
With CA, Sandiganbayan & RTC: decided by MuTCs, MeTCs, MuCTC based on their delegated
1. Petitions for writs of CPM jurisdiction. 4. Appeals from the National Commission on
Indigenous Peoples (NCIP)
relating to acts or omissions of: By Special Civil Action of Certiorari against:
a) A MTC 1. Decisions and Final resolutions of the National Labor
b) A corporation 5. Appeals from the Office of the Ombudsman
Relations Commission (NLRC)
c) A board in administrative disciplinary cases
d) An officer
e) A Person
2. Petitions for issuance of Writ of
Amparo
3. Petitions for issuance of Writ of
Habeas Data
 SANDIGANBAYAN
ORIGINAL J. APPELATE J.
Exclusive Concurrent Decisions and Final orders of
1. Violation of RA 3019 (Anti-Graft), RA 1379 (Unlawful acquiring of property & Forfeiture to With the SC: RTCs in the exercise of their
the state), Chapter II, Sec.2, Title VII of the RPC, and other offenses committed BY PUBLIC 1. Petitions for issuance of writs of original or appellate jurisdiction
OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES in relation to their office, and PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS charged as C,P,M,HC,I, and other ancillary under PD 1606, as amended,
co-principals, accomplices, and accessories including those employed in government- writs in aid of its appellate shall be appealable to the
owned or controlled corporations, where one or more of the accused are officials Sandiganbayan in the manner
jurisdiction, including quo
occupying the following positions in government, whether in a permanent, acting, or interim
warranto arising in cases falling provided by Rule 122 of the RoC.
capacity, at the time of the commission of the offense:
under Eos 1, 2, 14 and 14-A
a) Officials of the Executive branch with salary grade “27” or higher
b) Members of Congress
c) Members of Judiciary
d) Members of Constitutional Commission
e) All other National and local officials with salary grade “27” or higher With the SC, CA & RTC:
1. Petitions for writs of CPM relating to
2. Civil and Criminal cases filed pursuant to and in connection with: acts or omissions of:
a) EO 1 (PCGG) a) A MTC
b) EO 2 (Regarding The Funds, Moneys, Assets, And Properties Illegally Acquired Or b) A corporation
Misappropriated By Former President Ferdinand Marcos, Mrs. Imelda Romualdez c) A board
Marcos, Their Close Relatives, Subordinates, Business Associates, Dummies, Agents, d) An officer
Or Nominees.) e) A Person
c) EO 14 (Defining the jurisdiction over cases involving the ILL-GOTTEN WEALTH OF 2. Petitions for issuance of Writ of
FORMER PRESIDENT FERDINAND E. MARCOS, mrs. Imelda r. Marcos, members of Amparo
their immediate family, close relatives, subordinates, close and/or business 3. Petitions for issuance of Writ of
associates, dummies, agents and nominees) Habeas Data
d) EO 14-A (amending EO 14)

3. Violations of RA 9610 (Anti-Money Laundering Act, as amended by RA 9194) when

committed by public officers and private persons who are in conspiracy with such
public officers
 RTC
ORIGINAL J. APPELATE J.
CIVIL CRIMINAL 1. All cases decided by
Exclusive Concurrent Exclusive lower courts (MeTC,
1. Subject of the action not capable of pecuniary With SC: 1. Criminal cases not within the exclusive MuTCs, MuCTC etc.)
estimation 1. Actions affecting: jurisdiction of any court, tribunal, or in their respective
a) Ambassadors body. territorial
2. Actions involving title or possession of real property jurisdictions.
b) Public Ministers
or interest therein where the assessed value
c) Consuls 2. Criminal cases where penalty exceeds (6)
exceeds P20,000.00 or in Metro Manila, P50,000.00
except for forcible entry and unlawful detainer With SC & CA: years imprisonment irrespective of the
1. Petitions for Habeas Corpus & Quo Warranto fine.
3. Actions in admiralty and maritime jurisdiction 2. Actions to prevent and restrain violations of
where demand or claim exceeds P300,000.00 or in laws concerning monopolies & combinations in 3. Criminal cases not falling within the
Metro Manila P400,000.00 exclusive original jurisdiction of the SB,
restraint of trade
where none of the accused are occupying
With SC, CA & SB:
4. Matters of probate, testate, or intestate, where positions with salary grade “27” or
gross value of estate exceeds P300,000.00 or in 1. Petitions for writs of CPM relating to acts or
higher.
Metro Manila, P400,000.00 omissions of:
a) A MTC
4. Where penalty is a fine which exceeds
5. Cases not within the exclusive jurisdiction of any b) A corporation
P4,000.00
court, tribunal, person, or body exercising judicial c) A board
or quasi-judicial function d) An officer
e) A Person
5. A whole complex crime when it is lodged
6. Other cases where demand, exclusive of interest, with the Trial court having jurisdiction to
2. Petitions for issuance of Writ of Amparo
damages, attorney’s fees, litigation expenses and impose the maximum and most serious
3. Petitions for issuance of Writ of Habeas Data
costs, or value of property in controversy exceeds penalty imposable for an offense forming
With MeTC, MuTC, MuCTC:
P300,000.00 or in MM, 400,000.00 part of the complex crime.
1. Application for Protection Order under
Sec.10, RA 9282, unless there is a Family
7. Additional original jurisdiction transferred under
Court in the residence of petitioner.
Sec. 5.2. of the Securities Regulation Code
With Insurance Commission:
8. Application for issuance of writ of search and 1. Claims not exceepding P100,000.00
seizure in civil actions for infringement of
intellectual property rights

9. Violations of RA 9160 “anti-money laundering act of

2001” as amended by RA 9194
 MeTC, MuTC, MuCTC, MuTC in Cities
ORIGINAL J.
Civil Criminal
Exclusive Delegated Special Exclusive Special
1. Actions involving personal property valued at 1. Cadastral and land 1. Petition for Habeas 1. All violations of city or municipal 1. Applications for
not more than P300,000.00 or in MM, registration cases Corpus in the ordinances committed within their bail in the absence
P400,000.00 assigned by Supreme absence of ALL RTC respective jurisdictions of all RTC judges.
court where there is no judges.
2. Actions (including admiralty and maritime controversy or 2. All offenses punishable with
cases) demanding sums of money not opposition and in imprisonment for not more than (6)
exceeding P300,000, or in MM, P400,000.00, contested lots valued at years; provided that in offenses
exclusive of resulting costs or expenses more than P100,000.00 involving damage to property
through criminal negligence, they
3. Actions involving title or possession of real shall have exclusive original
property where the assessed value does not jurisdiction.
exceed P20,000.00 or in MM, P50,000.00
3. All offenses committed not falling
4. Provisional remedies in principal actions within within the exclusive jurisdiction of
their jurisdiction, and in proper cases, such as the Sandiganbayan where none of
preliminary attachment, preliminary injuction, the accused is occupying a position
appointment or receiver and delivery of with salary grade “27” and higher.
personal property.
4. In cases where the only penalty
5. Forcible entry and unlawful detainer, with provided by law is a fine not
jurisdiction to resolve issue of ownership to exceeding P4,000.00, the MeTCs
determine issue of possession have juridsiction

6. Probate proceedings, testate or intestate,

where gross value of estate does not exceed
P300,000.00 or in MM, P400,000.00

7. Inclusion and exclusion of voters

 FAMILY COURTS
EXCLUSIVE and ORIGINAL J.
1. Criminal cases where:
a) One or more of the accused is below (18)yrs old but not less than (9)yrs old.
b) One or more of the victims is a minor at the time of the commission of the offense, PROVIDED, that if the minor is found guilty, the court
shall promulgate sentence and ascertain any civil liability which the accused may have incurred. (The sentence, however, shall be
suspended without need of application pursuant to PD 1903, “The Child and Youth Welfare Code”

2. Petitions for guardianship, custody of children, habeas corpus in relation to the latter
3. Petitions for adoption of children and the revocation thereof
4. Complaints for annulment of marriage, declaration of nullity of marriage, and those relating to marital status and property relations of husband and
wife or those living together under different status and agreements and petitions for dissolution of conjugal partnership of gains
5. Petitions for involuntary commitment of a child, for removal of custody against child-placement or child-caring agency or individual, and for
commitment of disabled child
6. Petitions for support and/or acknowledgement
7. Summary judicial proceedings brought under the provisions of EO.209 “The Family Code of the Philippines”
8. Petitions for declaration of status of children as abandoned, dependent, or neglected children, petitions for voluntary or involuntary commitment of
children, the suspension, termination, or restoration of parental authority and other cases cognizable under PD.603, and other related laws
9. Petitions for constitution of family home
10. Cases against minors cognizable under RA.9165 “The Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002”
11. Violation of RA 7610, otherwise known as the “Special Protection of Children Against Child Abuse, Exploration and Discrimination Act”
12. Violation of RA 9775, “Anti-Child Pornography Act of 2009”
13. Cases of domestic Violence against:
a) Women
b) Children
14. Cases of violence against women and their children under RA.9262 “Anti-violence against women and their children act of 2004”
including applications for protection under the same
15. Criminal cases involving juveniles if no preliminary investigation is required under Rule112,Sec.1 of RoC.