SUPREME COURT

ORIGINAL EXCLUSIVE
Petitions for Certiorari, Prohibition or Mandamus against the:
a. Court of Appeals
b. Commission on Elections
c. Commission on Audit
d. Sandiganbayan
ORIGINAL CONCURRENT
with Court of Appeals Petitions for certiorari, prohibition or mandamus
against:
a.
RTC
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
with the Court of
a. Petitions for Certiorari, Prohibition or
Appeals and the
mandamus against first level courts and
Regional Trial Court
other bodies
b. Petitions for habeas corpus and quo warranto
with the Regional
Actions against ambassadors, other public
Trial Court
ministers and consuls
APPELLATE
Petitions for Review on Certiorari against the
Court of Appeals
Sandiganbayan
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. Legality of a tax, impost, assessment, toll, or
a penalty in relation thereto
c. Jurisdiction of a lower court
d. Only errors or questions of law

COURT OF APPEALS

ORIGINAL EXCLUSIVE
Actions for annulment of judgments of the Regional Trial Courts
ORIGINAL CONCURRENT
with Supreme Court

with the Supreme

Court and the
Regional Trial Court

Ordinary Appeals

Petitions for certiorari, prohibition or mandamus

against:
g.
RTC
h.
Civil Service Commission
i.
Central Board of assessment Appeals
j.
Court of Tax Appeals
k.
Other Quasi-Judicial agencies
l.
National Labor Relations Commission
c. Petitions for Certiorari, Prohibition or
mandamus against first level courts and
other bodies
d. Petitions for habeas corpus and quo warranto
APPELLATE
from the Regional Trial Court except in cases
exclusively appealable to the Supreme Court

from Family Courts

Appeal by Petition for a. Court of Tax Appeals
Review from
b. Civil Service Commission
c. Central Board of Assessment Appeals
d. Securities and 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 (RA 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, commission, in the
exercise of its quasi-judicial functions, such
as voluntary arbitrator
Petitions for Review

from the Regional Trial Court in cases appealed

from the lower courts

Regional Trial Courts

ORIGINAL EXCLUSIVE
a. Actions where the subject matter is not capable of pecuniary
estimation
b. Actions involving title to or possession of real property or an interest
therein where the assessed value of such property exceeds
__________. ( in Metro Manila, __________ ) except forcible entry
and unlawful detainer
c. Actions in admiralty and maritime jurisdiction where the demand or
claim exceeds ____________ . ( in Metro Manila, ______________ )
d. Matters of probate , testate or intestate, where the gross value of
the estate exceeds ____________.- (in Metro Manila,
______________ )
e. Actions involving marriage and marital relations
f. Cases not within the exclusive jurisdiction of any court, tribunal,
person or body exercising judicial or quasi-judicial functions
g. Actions and special proceedings within the exclusive original
jurisdiction of the former Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court
and of the Court of Agrarian Relations as now provided by law,
and
h. Other cases where the demand or the value of the property exceeds
_________________ ( in Metro Manila, ___________ ) exclusive of
interest, damages, attorneys fees, litigation expenses and costs
ORIGINAL CONCURRENT
with Supreme Court

Actions affecting ambassadors, other public

ministers and consuls

with the Supreme

Court and the Court
of Appeals

e. Petitions for Certiorari, Prohibition or

mandamus against the lower courts and
other bodies
f. Petitions for habeas corpus and quo warranto

APPELLATE
All cases decided by the lower courts in their respective territorial
jurisdictions

METROPOLITAN, MUNICIPAL AND MUNICIPAL CIRCUIT TRIAL COURTS

ORIGINAL EXCLUSIVE
a. Actions involving personal property valued are not more than
____________________. ( in Metro Manila, ___________ )
b. Actions demanding sums of money not exceeding
____________________ ( in Metro Manila, _______________ ) exclusive
of interest, damages, attorneys fees, litigation expenses and
costs
c. Actions in admiralty and maritime jurisdiction where the demand or
claim does not exceed _______________ (In Metro Manila,
_________________ )
d. Probate proceedings (testate or intestate), where the gross value of
the estate does not exceed _________________
e. Forcible entry and unlawful detainer cases
f. Actions involving title to or possession of real property or any
interest therein, where the assessed value does not exceed
_______________ ( in Metro Manila, _________________ ) exclusive of
interest, damages, attorneys fees, litigation expenses and costs
g. Provisional remedies where the principal action is within their
jurisdiction
DELEGATED
Cadastral or land registration cases covering
a. Lots where there is no controversy or opposition
b. Contested lots where the value of which does not exceed
_______________
SPECIAL
Petitions for habeas corpus in the absence of all Regional Trial Court
Judges in the province or city
SUMMARY PROCEDURE
a. Forcible entry and unlawful detainer cases IRRESPECTIVE of the
amount of damages or unpaid rentals sought to be recovered
b. All other court cases except probate proceedings where the total
claim does not exceed _______________ exclusive of interests and
costs