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What are the roles and responsibilities of the Philippine Judiciary?

The Judicial branch holds the power to settle controversies involving rights that are legally demandable
and enforceable. This branch determines whether or not there has been a grave abuse of discretion
amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction on the part and instrumentality of the government.
What is Judicial power?

Judicial power is the power of the Supreme Court and other courts as may be established by law to
interpret and apply the laws passed by Congress.
What is the importance of Judiciary?

The judiciary plays a fundamental role in society and for the upholding of social order. Its primary
function, in fact, is to resolve conflicts through the application of pre-existing norms or, in some cases
precedents, which have been issued through legitimate procedures, as recognized by the political
system.

How Judiciary exercises political neutrality and fairness?

The Judiciary, in the exercise of its expanded judicial power, has the power to resolve political questions
by determining whether or not there has been a grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess of
jurisdiction on the part of any branch or instrumentality of the Government.

Arrange the jumbled words and give its meaning.

UJIDLACI

JUDICIAL

THE JUDICIAL
The Philippine judicial and legal system, including its legal education system, blends elements of civil law
inherited from the Spaniards and American common law. For instance, civil code procedures on family
and property matters, among others, and the absence of jury trials are attributable to the Spanish civil law
influences.

RSTOUC

COURTS

Courts always open; justice to be promptly and impartially administered.

WOPERS

POWERS

Inherent powers of courts. - Every court shall have power:

To preserve and enforce order in its immediate presence;
To enforce order in proceedings before a person or persons empowered to conduct a judicial
investigation under its authority

ERUSPEM OCRUT

SUPREME COURT

A supreme court is the highest court within the hierarchy of courts in most legal jurisdictions.

9178 CUTNSTOITOIN

1987 CONSTITUTION

• vested the judicial power “in one [SC] and in such lower courts as may be established by law.
• provided guarantees of judicial independence, delineating the SC’s powers and stating that
Congress may not deprive the SC of those powers.
• The Constitution vested administrative supervision over all lower courts and judiciary personnel
in the SC rather than the executive branch.
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ASSESSMENT

Make a graphic organizer of the “Structure of the Courts” using the lesson above.
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ASSIGNMENT

POWERS AND DUTIES OF COURTS AND JUDICIAL OFFICERS

Courts are always open for justice to be promptly and impartially administered. The Courts of
justice shall always be open, except on legal holidays, for the filing of any pleadings, motions or other
papers, for the trial of cases, hearing of motions, and for the issuance of orders or rendition of
judgments. Justice shall be impartially administered with out unnecessary delay. The sitting of every
court of justice shall be public, but any court may, in its discretion, exclude the public when the evidence
to be adduced is of such nature as to require their exclusion in the interest of morality or decency.

The process of superior courts enforced throughout the Philippines. - Process issued from a
superior court in which a case is pending to bring in a defendant, or for the arrest of any accused person,
or to execute any order or judgment of the court, may be enforced in any part of the Philippines.

Writs of execution issued by inferior courts may be enforced in any part of the Philippines without
any previous approval of the judge of first instance. Trial and hearings; orders in chambers. - All trial
upon the merits shall be conducted in open court and so far, as convenient in a regular court room. All
other acts or proceedings may be done or conducted by a judge in chambers, without the attendance of
the clerk or other court officials. Interlocutory orders out of province. - A judge of Regional Trial Court
shall have power to hear and determine, when within the district though without his province, any
interlocutory motion or issue after due and reasonable notice to the parties.

Whenever a judge appointed or assigned in any province or branch of a Regional Trial Court in a
province shall leave the province by transfer or assignment to another court of equal jurisdiction, or by
expiration of his temporary assignment, without having decided a case totally heard by him and which
was argued or an opportunity given for argument to the parties or their counsel, it shall be lawful for him
to prepare and sign his decision in said case anywhere within the Philippines. He shall send the same by
registered mail to the clerk of the court where the case was heard or argued to be filed therein as of the
date when the same was received by the clerk, in the same manner as if he had been present in court to
direct the filing of the judgment.