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ii. CONCURRENT
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a. With the Court of Appeals

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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 mandamus against
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
i. 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 mandamus
against 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

3. REGIONAL TRIAL COURTS

A. ORIGINAL
i. EXCLUSIVE
a. Actions wherein 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 PhP 20,000.- [in Metro Manila, PhP 50,000.-]
a. except forcible entry and unlawful detainer
c. Actions in admiralty and maritime jurisdiction where the
demand or claim exceeds PhP 100,000.- [in Metro Manila: PhP
200,000.-]
d. Matters of probate, testate or intestate, where the gross value
of the estate exceeds PhP 100,000.-[in Metro Manila: PhP
200,000.
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 PhP 100,000.- [in Metro Manila: PhP 200,000.-]
a. exclusive of interest, damages, attorney’s fees, litigation
expenses and costs
ii. CONCURRENT
a. With the Supreme Court
a. Actions affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and
consuls
b. With the Supreme Court & the Court of Appeals
a. Petitions for certiorari, prohibition and mandamus against
the lower courts and bodies
b. Petitions for habeas corpus and quo warranto
B. APPELLATE
All cases decided by lower courts in their respective territorial jurisdictions

4. METROPOLITAN, MUNICIPAL & MUNICIPAL CIRCUIT

TRIAL COURTS
A. ORIGINAL
i. EXCLUSIVE
a. (1) Actions involving personal property valued are not more
than PhP 100,000.- [in Metro Manila: PhP 200,000.-]
b. (2) Actions demanding sums of money not exceeding PhP
100,000.- [in Metro Manila: PhP 200,000.-]
a. exclusive of interest, damages, attorney’s fees, litigation
expenses and costs
c. (3) Actions in admiralty and maritime jurisdiction where the
demand or claim does not exceed PhP 100,000.- [in Metro
Manila: PhP 200,000.]
a. exclusive of interest, damages, attorney’s fees, litigation
expenses and costs
d. (4) Probate proceedings (testate or intestate), where the gross
value of the estate does not exceed PhP 100,000.-
[in Metro Manila: PhP 200,000.-]
e. (5) Forcible entry and unlawful detainer cases
f. (6) Actions involving title to or possession of real property, or
any interest therein, where the assessed value does not
exceed PhP 20,000.- [in Metro Manila: PhP 50,000.-]
a. exclusive of interest, damages, attorney’s fees, litigation
expenses and costs
g. (7)Provisional remedies where the principal action is within
their jurisdiction
ii. 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
P100,000.-
iii. SPECIAL
Petitions for habeas corpus in the absence of all Regional Trial
Court Judges in the province or city
iv. SUMMARY PROCEDURE
a. Forcible entry and unlawful detainer cases
a. 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 P10,000.- exclusive of interest and
costs

* Based on the Judiciary Act of 1980, as amended

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