Auuuzu BillAhee meenas Shaitanni Rajeem

Bismillah heeRaqhmanih Raheem

Assalamu alaykum. This lesson is about:
JURISDICTION

IN

CIVIL

CASES

SUPREME

COURT

The Supreme Court has two kinds of jurisdiction:

1st is Original Jurisdiction.
And 2nd is Appellate Jurisdiction.
Under Original Jurisdiction there are 2 kinds:
1st

kind

a.

Petitions

(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)

of

original
for

jurisdiction

certiorari,

Court
Court

of

Commission
Commission

is

Exclusive

prohibition

or

of

jurisdiction
mandamus

over:

against:

Appeals;
Appeals;

Tax
Sandiganbayan;
on
Elections;
on

and
Audit.

2nd kind is original concurrent jurisdiction with other courts.

a.
(1)
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)

Concurrent

with

the

Court

of

Appeals

over:

Petitions

for
certiorari,
prohibition
or
mandamus
against:
Regional
Trial
Courts;
Civil
Service
Commission;
Central
Board
of
Assessment
Appeals;
National
Labor
Relations
Commission;
and
Other
quasi-judicial
agencies.

b. Concurrent with the Court of Appeals and Regional Trial Courts over:
(1) Petitions for certiorari, prohibition or mandamus against courts of the
1st
level
and
other
bodies;
and
(2)
Petitions
for
habeas
corpus
and
quo
warranto.
C.

Concurrent

with

Regional

Trial

Courts

over:

(1) Actions against ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls.

Next is the 2nd kind of jurisdiction. The Appellate Jurisdiction.
The
Supreme
Court
has
Appellate
Jurisdiction
1.

Petitions

for

review

a.
b.
c.
d.

Court
of
Court
of
Sandiganbayan;
Regional
Trial
Courts

on

certiorari
Tax
in

against:

Appeals;
Appeals;
and
cases
involving

over:

(1) Constitutionality or validity of a treaty, international or executive

agreement, law, presidential decree, proclamation, order, instruction,
ordinance,
or
regulation;
(2) Legality of a tax, impost, assessment, toll or a penalty in relation
thereto;
(3)
Jurisdiction
of
a
lower
court;
and
(4) Only errors or questions of law.
End of lesson!
Aalhamdulillaah!