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Philippine Migrant Rights Watch, Inc. v Overseas Welfare Workers Administration (GR. 166923)
RTC promulgated its Order dismissing the complaint for lack of jurisdiction to resolve the
constitutionality of an administrative act. According to the lower court, the determination of
constitutionality of the assailed resolution rests, not within its jurisdiction, but within the jurisdiction of
the Supreme Court. However, the Court held that RTC has jurisdiction to resolve the constitutionality of
a statute, presidential decree, executive order, or administrative regulation, as recognized in Section
2(a), Article VIII of the 1987 Constitution, which provides:
SECTION 5. The Supreme Court shall have the following powers:
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(2) Review, revise, reverse, modify, or affirm on appeal or certiorari, as the law or
the Rules of Court may provide final judgments and orders of lower courts in:
(a) All cases in which the constitutionality or validityof any treaty, international or
executive agreement, law, presidential decree, proclamation, order, instruction,
ordinance, or regulationis in question.
In view of the foregoing provision, the jurisdiction of regular courts involving the validity or
constitutionality of a rule or regulation cannot be denied. The power of judicial review is vested by the
Constitution not only in the Supreme Court but in all Regional Trial Courts.