QUALIFICATIONS

APPOINTMENTS TO THE JUDICIARY

LOWER COLLEGIATE COURTS NON-COLLEGIATE COURTS
COURTS OF THE SHARIA CIRCUIT COURTS9
SUPREME COURT OF SHARIA REGIONAL TRIAL SHARIA FIRST LEVEL8
COURT OF (Metropolitan Trial Provinces or Cities
COURT1 TAX APPELLATE SANDIGANBAYAN5 COURT AND DISTRICT Court, Municipal Trial
APPEALS2 In ARMM NOT members of the
APPEALS3 COURT4 FAMILY COURTS6 COURTS7 Court in Cities, Municipal
Trial Court, Municipal ARMM
Circuit Trial Court)
CITIZENSHIP
Natural-born Citizen Citizen of the Philippines
AGE
40 35 30 25
EXPERIENCE
15 10 5 ---
Engaged in the
practice of law
Engaged in the
in the
practice of law in
Philippines
Judge of a the Philippines
Judge of a court of Engaged in the OR Engaged in the
lower court OR Passed an
record practice of law in Have held a practice of law in
OR Have held a public examination in the
OR the Philippines public office in the Philippines
Engaged in office in the Sharia and Islamic
Engaged in the OR the Philippines OR
the practice of Philippines Jurisprudence to be
Judge of a lower court practice of law in Have held a requiring Have held a public
law in the requiring given by the Supreme
OR the Philippines public office in admission to office in the
Philippines admission to the Court for admission
Engaged in the practice of law in the OR the Philippines the practice of Philippines
practice of law as to special
Philippines Have held office requiring law as an requiring
AND an indispensable membership in the
requiring admission to the indispensable admission to the
Learned in requisite Philippine Bar to
admission to the practice of law as requisite practice of law as
Islamic Law practice in Sharia
bar as a an indispensable an indispensable
and AND courts.
prerequisite requisite AND requisite
Jurisprudence Learned in Islamic
Learned in
Law and
Islamic Law
Jurisprudence
and
Jurisprudence
Source: JBC No. 2016-01. THE REVISED RULES OF THE JUDICIAL BAR COUNCIL.

1. Members of the Supreme Court: Sec. 7, Art. VIII, Constitution

2. Members of the Court of Appeals: Sec. 7, B.P. Blg. 129 The Judiciary Reorganization Act of 1980
3. Members of the Court of Tax Appeals: Sec. 1, R.A. No. 1125, as amended by R.A. No. 9054 An Act Creating the Court of Tax Appeals
4. Members of the Sharia Appellate Court: Sec. 4, Art. IX, R.A. No. 6734, as amended by R.A. 9054 An Act Providing for an Organic Act of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao
5. Members of the Sandiganbayan: Sec. 1, P.D. 1606, as amended Revising Presidential Decree No. 1486 Creating a Special Court to be Known as Sandiganbayan and for Other
Purposes
6. Judges of the Regional Trial Court and Family Courts: Sec. 15, B.P. Blg. 129 The Judiciary Reorganization Act of 1980; Sec 4(a) R.A. No. 8369
7. Judges of Sharia District Courts: Art. 140, P.D. 1083 "Code of Muslim Personal Laws of the Philippines"; Sec. 13, Art. IX, R.A. No. 6734, as amended An Act Providing for an Organic Act
of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao
8. Judges of Courts of the First Level: Sec. 26, B.P. Blg. 129 The Judiciary Reorganization Act of 1980
9. Sharia Circuit Courts: [Not ARMM] Art. 152, P.D. 1083 "Code of Muslim Personal Laws of the Philippines"; [ARMM] Sec. 13, Art. IX, R.A. No. 6734 An Act Providing for an Organic Act of
the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao