JURISDICTION OF VARIOUS COURTS
ORIGINAL EXCLUSIVE ORIGINAL
1. Cases affecting
ambassadors, other public
SUPREME COURT
ministers and consuls;
2. Certiorari;
3. Prohibition;
4. Mandamus;
5. Quo Warranto;
6. Habeas Corpus;
7.Writ of Amparo;
8. Habeas Data;
9. Continuing Mandamus;
and
10. Writ of Kalikasan
1. Certiorari;
2. Prohibition;
3. Mandamus;
COURT OF APPEALS
4.Quo Warranto;
5. Auxillary writs or
processes, wheter or not in
aid of its appellate
jurisdiction;
APPELLATE CONCURRENT SPECIAL DELEGATED
1. Petition for certiorari,
prohibition, and mandamus
against judgement, final order,
and resolution of the following:
CA
Sandiganbayan
CTA
COMELEC
COA
CSC
Ombudsman in criminal case
1. Petition for annulment of
judgements of the RTC;
2. Petition for certiorari,
prohibition, or mandamus
against decisions and final
orders of:
RTC
NLRC
Secretary of Labor and
Employement in the exercise
of its appellate jurisdiction
over decisions and final
orders of the POEA
Administrator
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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


1. Petitions by the Muslims
SHARI'AH DISTRICT COURT
for the constitution of family
home, change of name, and
commitment of an insane
person to an asylum;
2. All other personal or real
actions wherein the parties
are Muslims except:
a.) unlawful detainer; and
4. All actions arising from
b.) forcible entry customary contracts in which
the parties are Muslims
3. All special civil actions for
interpleader or declaratory
relief wherein the parties are
Muslims
NDIGANBAYAN
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. All cases involving custody,
guardianship, legitimacy,
paternity and filiation under
the Code of Muslim Personal
Laws of the Philippines
2. All cases involving
disposition of the estate of
deceased Muslims
3. Petitions for declaration of
absence of death, etc
5. All petitions for mandamus,
prohibition, injunction,
certiorari, habeas corpus, and
other auxillary writs
CIVIL CASES
1. Violations of the Anti-Graft
and Corrupt Practices Act:
Civil forfeiture proceedings
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