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Jurisdiction in Civil Cases
Jurisdiction in Civil Cases
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 mandamusagainst 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 mandamusagainst 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