Jurisdiction In Civil Cases

1. SUPREME COURT
A. ORIGINAL
i. EXCLUSIVE
Petitions for certiorari, prohibition or mandamus against the:
a. Court of Appeals
b. Commission on Elections
c. Commission on Audit
d. Sandiganbayan
ii. CONCURRENT
a. With the Court of Appeals
Petitions for certiorari,
prohibition or mandamus against the:
a. Regional Trial Court
b. Civil Service Commission
c. Central Board of Assessment Appeals
d. Court of Tax Appeals
e. Other quasi-judicial agencies
f. National Labor Relations
Commission
b. With the Court of Appeals and Regional Trial Court
a. Petitions for certiorari,
prohibition or mandamus against
courts of the first level and other
bodies; and
b. Petitions for habeas corpus and quo
warranto
c. With the Regional Trial Court
a. Actions against ambassadors, other
public ministers and consuls
B.
APPELLATE
Petitions for review on certiorari against the:
i. Court of Appeals
ii. Sandiganbayan
iii. Regional Trial Court in cases involving:
a. the constitutionality or validity of a treaty, international
or executive agreement, law, presidential decree,
proclamation, order, instruction, ordinance or regulation
b. the legality of a tax, impost, assessment, toll or a
penalty in relation thereto;
c. the jurisdiction of a lower court
d. only errors or questions of law
2. COURT OF APPEALS
A. ORIGINAL
i. EXCLUSIVE
Actions for annulment of judgments of the Regional Trial Court
ii. CONCURRENT
iii.
a. With the Supreme Court
a. Petitions for certiorari,
prohibition or mandamus against the:
a. Regional Trial
Court
b. Civil Service
Commission
c. Central Board of
Assessment
Appeals
d. Court of Tax
Appeals
e. Other quasi-judicial
agencies
f. National Labor
Relations
Commission
b. With the Supreme Court and Regional Trial Court
a.
a. Petitions
for certiorari,
prohibition or man
damus against
courts of the first
level and other
bodies
 b. Petitions
for habeas
corpus and quo
warranto
B. APPELLATE
i. ORDINARY APPEALS from the
a. Regional Trial Court
a. except in cases exclusively appealable
to the Supreme Court
b. Family Courts
ii. APPEAL BY PETITION FOR REVIEW from
a. Court of Tax Appeals
b. Civil Service Commission
c. Central Board of Assessment Appeals
d. Securities & Exchange Commission
e. Land Registration Authority
f. Social Security Commission
g. Office of the President
h. Civil Aeronautics Board
i. Bureaus under the Intellectual Property Office
j. National Electrification Administration
k. Energy Regulatory Board
l. National Telecommunications Commission
m. Department of Agrarian Reform under R.A. 6657
n. GSIS
o. Employees Compensation Commission
p. Agricultural Inventions Board
q. Insurance Commission
r. Philippine Atomic Energy Commission
s. Board of Investments
t. Construction Industry Arbitration Commission
u. Any other quasi-judicial agency, instrumentality, board
or commission in the exercise of its quasi-judicial
functions, such as voluntary arbitrator
iii. PETITIONS FOR REVIEW from the Regional Trial Court
in cases appealed from the lower courts
3. REGIONAL TRIAL COURTS
A. ORIGINAL
i. EXCLUSIVE
a. Actions wherein the subject matter is not capable of
pecuniary estimation
b. Actions involving title to or possession of real property
or an interest therein, where the assessed value of such
property exceeds PhP 20,000.- [in Metro Manila, PhP
50,000.-]
a. except forcible entry and unlawful
detainer
c. Actions in admiralty and maritime jurisdiction where
the demand or claim exceeds PhP 100,000.- [in Metro
Manila: PhP 200,000.-]
d. Matters of probate, testate or intestate, where the gross
value of the estate exceeds PhP 100,000.-[in Metro
Manila: PhP 200,000.
e. Actions involving marriage and marital relations
f. Cases not within the exclusive jurisdiction of any court,
tribunal, person or body exercising judicial or quasi-
judicial functions
g. Actions and special proceedings within the exclusive
original jurisdiction of the former Juvenile and
Domestic Relations Court and of the Court of Agrarian
Relations as now provided by law; and
h. Other cases where the demand or the value of the
property exceeds PhP 100,000.- [in Metro Manila: PhP
200,000.-]
a. exclusive of interest, damages,
attorney’s fees, litigation expenses
and costs
ii. CONCURRENT
a. With the Supreme Court
a. Actions affecting ambassadors, other
public ministers and consuls
b. With the Supreme Court & the Court of Appeals
a. Petitions for certiorari, prohibition
and mandamus against the lower
courts and bodies
 b. Petitions for habeas corpus and quo
warranto
B.
APPELLATE
All cases decided by lower courts in their respective territorial jurisdictions
4. METROPOLITAN, MUNICIPAL & MUNICIPAL CIRCUIT TRIAL COURTS
A. ORIGINAL
i. EXCLUSIVE
a. (1) Actions involving personal property valued are not
more than PhP 100,000.- [in Metro Manila: PhP
200,000.-]
b. (2) Actions demanding sums of money not exceeding
PhP 100,000.- [in Metro Manila: PhP 200,000.-]
a. exclusive of interest, damages,
attorney’s fees, litigation expenses
and costs
c. (3) Actions in admiralty and maritime jurisdiction
where the demand or claim does not exceed PhP
100,000.- [in Metro Manila: PhP 200,000.]
a. exclusive of interest, damages,
attorney’s fees, litigation expenses
and costs
d. (4) Probate proceedings (testate or intestate), where the
gross value of the estate does not exceed PhP 100,000.-
[in Metro Manila: PhP 200,000.-]
e. (5) Forcible entry and unlawful detainer cases
f. (6) Actions involving title to or possession of real
property, or any interest therein, where the assessed
value does not exceed PhP 20,000.- [in Metro Manila:
PhP 50,000.-]
a. exclusive of interest, damages,
attorney’s fees, litigation expenses
and costs
g. (7)Provisional remedies where the principal action is
within their jurisdiction
ii. DELEGATED
Cadastral or land registration cases covering
a. lots where there is no controversy or opposition
b. contested lots where the value of which does not exceed
P100,000.-
iii. SPECIAL
Petitions for habeas corpus in the absence of all Regional Trial
Court Judges in the province or city
iv. SUMMARY PROCEDURE
a. Forcible entry and unlawful detainer cases
a. irrespective of the amount of damages
or unpaid rentals sought to be
recovered
b. All other court cases except probate proceedings, where
the total claim does not exceed P10,000.- exclusive of
interest and costs
* Based on the Judiciary Act of 1980, as amended