JURISDICTION OF VARIOUS COURTS
ORIGINAL EXCLUSIVE ORIGINAL APPELLATE CONCURRENT SPECIAL DELEGATED
1. Petition for certiorari,
1. Cases affecting
prohibition, and mandamus
ambassadors, other public
SUPREME COURT
against judgement, final order,
ministers and consuls;
and resolution of the following:
2. Certiorari; CA
3. Prohibition; Sandiganbayan
4. Mandamus; CTA
5. Quo Warranto; COMELEC
6. Habeas Corpus; COA
7.Writ of Amparo; CSC
8. Habeas Data; Ombudsman in criminal case
9. Continuing Mandamus;
and
10. Writ of Kalikasan
1. Petition for annulment of
1. Certiorari;
judgements of the RTC;
2. Petition for certiorari,
prohibition, or mandamus
2. Prohibition;
against decisions and final
orders of:
3. Mandamus; RTC
COURT OF APPEALS
4.Quo Warranto; NLRC
Secretary of Labor and
5. Auxillary writs or Employement in the exercise
processes, wheter or not in of its appellate jurisdiction
aid of its appellate over decisions and final
jurisdiction; orders of the POEA
Administrator
COURT OF APP
National Wage Productivity
6. Writ of Amparo; Commission over wage order
of the RTWPB
Indirect contempt cases by
7. Habeas Data;
the NLRC
Bureau of Labor Relations on
8. Continuing Mandamus; appeal over the cancellation
of union registration
9. Writ of Kalikasan;
10. Petition to freeze order
on any monetary instrument,
property, or proceeds relating
to any unlawful activity
1. Civil actions in which the
subject of the litigation is
1. Certiorari;
incapable of pecuniary
estimation;
2. Civil actions involving title
to or possession of real
property or any interest
2. Prohibition;
therein, provided that the
assessed value of the
property is:
Metro Manila- exceeding
3. Mandamus;
Php50,000
Outside Metro Manila-
4.Quo Warranto;
exceeding Php20,000
3. All actions in admiralty and
5. Habeas Corpus; maritime jurisdiction where the
demand claim:
COURT
6. Any injunction which may
Outside Metro Manila-
REGIONAL TRIAL COURT be enforced in any part of the
exceeding Php300,000
region;
7. Actions involving
Metro Manila- exceeding
ambassadors, public
Php400,000
ministers, and consuls;
4. Matter of probate, both
8. Actions for annullment of
testate and intestate, where
judgement of the MTC
the gross value of the estate:
Outside Metro Manila-
9. Writ of Amparo;
exceeding Php300,000
Metro Manila- exceeding
10. Habeas Data;
Php400,000
5. All actions involving the
11. Continuing Mandamus contract of marriage and
marital relations;
6. All cases not within the
jursidiction of any court
(General Jurisdiction)
7. All civil actions and special
proceedings falling within the
jursidiction of the Juvenile and
Domestic Relations Court and
the Court of Agrarian Reform
8. All other cases in which the
demand, exclusive of interest,
damages, attorney's fees,
litigation expenses, etc
exceeds:
Outside Metro Manila-
Php300,000
Metro Manila- Php400,000
9. Over certain cases or
controversies under the
provision of the Securities and
Regulations Code
10. Cases under the Rules on
Alternative Dispute Resolution
1. Petitions by the Muslims 1. All cases involving custody,
SHARI'AH DISTRICT COURT
for the constitution of family guardianship, legitimacy,
home, change of name, and paternity and filiation under
commitment of an insane the Code of Muslim Personal
person to an asylum; Laws of the Philippines
2. All other personal or real 2. All cases involving
actions wherein the parties disposition of the estate of
are Muslims except: deceased Muslims
3. Petitions for declaration of
a.) unlawful detainer; and
absence of death, etc
4. All actions arising from
b.) forcible entry customary contracts in which
the parties are Muslims
3. All special civil actions for 5. All petitions for mandamus,
interpleader or declaratory prohibition, injunction,
relief wherein the parties are certiorari, habeas corpus, and
Muslims other auxillary writs
CIVIL CASES
1. Violations of the Anti-Graft
and Corrupt Practices Act:
Civil forfeiture proceedings
NDIGANBAYAN
Recovery of unlawfully or
illegally acquired properties of
public officers
SANDIGANBAYAN 2. Civil and criminal cases
filed pursuant to and in
connection with EO Nos. 1, 2,
14, and 14-A
3. Petitions for the issuance of
the writs of mandamus,
prohibition, certiorati, habeas
corpus, injuction, and other
anxilliary writs, and quo
warranto
COURT OF TAX
APPEALS
1. Tax collection cases
involving final and executory
assessments, providedthat
the principal amount of taxes
and fees exclusive of charges
and penalties is more the
Php1,000,000
MeTC/ MTC/
1. Civil actions and probate
proceedings, testate and
MCTC
intestate includig the grant of
provisional remedies where
the value of the personal
property/ estate/ amount of
demand is less than:
Outside MM- Php300,000
MM- Php400,000
2. Unlawful detainer
3. Forcible Entry
4. Civil actions involving title
to or possession of real
property or any interest
therein, provided that the
assessed value of the
property is:
Metro Manila- not exceeding
Php50,000
Outside Metro Manila- not
exceeding Php20,000
5. Cases under the Rules on
Summary Procedures
6. Cases under the Small
Claims
