JUDICIARY

The Roles and

Responsibilities of the
Philippine Judiciary
 Systems of court that interprets and applies
the law in the name of the state.
 Provides mechanism for the resolution of
dispute.
 Consists of a court of final appeal together
with lower courts.
 Judicial power rests with the
Supreme Court and the lower courts
as established by the law
 Article VIII, Section 1 of the 1987
Constitution
 Settle actual controversies involving rights
(legally demandable)
The Supreme Court
 The highest court in
the Philippines
 Has administrative
supervision over all
courts and the
personnel
 1 Chief justice
and 14 associate
justices
 Chief Justice
Lucas
Bersamin
 1987 Constitution, Article VIII, Section 5:
 Supervision and control over the Philippine
judiciary and its employees.

 Adjudicatory, Power of Judicial review and

Incidental power
Lower Collegiate
Courts
Court of Appeals/
Hukuman ng
Paghahabol ng
Pilipinas
  2nd highest judicial court
 Consists of 68 associate justices and 1
presiding justice

 sits in divisions with 3 members each, for the

purpose of exercising administrative, ceremonial
& other non- adjudicatory functions
Sandiganbayan: the
people’s advocate
 tries and decides  shall sit in 5
the criminal and divisions of 3 justices.
civil cases against 1st three division shall
government sit in metro manila,
officials and 4th from Visayas
employees accused region and 5th shall be
of graft and similar in CDO
cases
Court of Tax
Appeals/ Hukuman
ng Paghahabol sa
Buwis ng Pilipinas
  special court of limited jurisdiction
 expanded jurisdiction transferred to the CTA,
the jurisdiction of the Regional Trial Courts and
the court of appeals over matters involving
criminal violation and collection of revenues
under the National Internal Revenue Code and
Tariff and Customs Code
 acquired jurisdiction over cases
involving local and real property taxes
Regular Courts
  Regional Trial Courts
• Established among the thirteen
regions (R I-XII and NCR)
• Shall exercise exclusive original jurisdiction in
all criminal cases not within the exclusive
jurisdiction of any court, tribunal or body,
except those now falling under the jurisdiction
of the Sandiganbayan
• Typically try cases of serious crimes
like murder and robbery as opposed
to petty crimes which reduce burden
of court cases
  Metropolitan Trial Courts
• Rule on Summary Procedure in Special
Cases adopted on Aug. 1, 1983:

1. Violations of 2. Violations of
traffic laws Rental Laws
3. Violations of municipal or city ordinances
4. All other criminal cases where the penalty
does not exceed 6 mos. of imprisonment or a
fine of P 1000. in offences involving damage to
property through criminal negligence, Rule shal
govern where the imposable fine does not
exceed P 10,000.
  Municipal Trial Courts
• every municipality in the Philippines has
its own municipal trial courts
 Metropolitan Trial Courts
• Municipal trial courts in towns and cities in
the metropolitan Manila are distinguished
from the other political subdivisions of the
Philippines
 Municipal Circuit Trial Courts
• Judicial courts of the Philippine
Judicial System which covers two or
more municipalities in the country
Muslim Courts
o Shari’a District Courts
• Equivalent to Regional Trial Courts.
Muslim Personal Laws of the Philippines
is being enforced
• decide every case on the basis of
evidence and the records transmitted as
memoranda, briefs or oral arguments
 • decisions are final
o Shari’a Circuit Courts
• Equivalent to the Municipal Circuit
Trial Courts
• 51 in existence
 • has original jurisdiction of the ff:
1. All cases involving offenses defined and
punished under Presidential Decree no.
1083
2. All action and proceedings between parties
who are Muslims or have been married with
Article 13 of the Presidential Decree no. 1083
involving deputes relating to:
 a. marriage b. Customary dowry

c. divorce d. Restitution of
marital rights & etc.

3. All cases involving disputes relative

to communal properties
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