SUPREME
COURT
ORIGINAL
J.
Exclusive
1. Petitions for the issuance of writs
of Certiorari, Prohibition &
Mandamus (CPM) against:
a) CA
b) Court of Tax Appeals
c) Commission on Elections
d) Commission on Audit
e) Sandiganbayan
f) Ombudsman (in criminal
& non-admin disciplinary
cases)
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APPELLAT
E J.
Concurrent By Notice of Appeal: (ordinary appeal) By Petition for Review On Certiorari:
With CA: 1. Appeals from CA
1. Petitions for writs of 1. From the CA, in all criminal
CPM against: cases involving offenses for 2. Appeals from the Sandiganbayan on PURE
a) National Labor which the penalty imposed is: QUESTIONS OF LAW, except where the
Relations Commission a) reclusion perpetua, penalty imposed is reclusion perpetua, life
b) Civil Service Commission b) life imprisonment, imprisonment, or death.
c) A lesser penalty is
With CA, RTC: imposed for offenses
3. Appeals from judgments or final orders of
1. Petitions for Habeas Corpus committed on the same
RTC exercising original jurisdiction in the
& Quo Warranto occasion or which arose following:
2. Actions to prevent and restrain out of the same
violations of laws concerning occurrence that gave
a) Questiosn of Constitutionality of treaties,
international or executive agreements, laws,
monopolies & combinations in rise to the more severe
PDs, Proclamations, order, instruction,
restraint of trade offense for which the
ordinances, or regulations
With CA, Sandiganbayan & RTC: penalty of death is
imposed. b) Legality of Tax, impost, assessment, or
1. Petitions for writs of CPM toll, or any penalty in rlation thereto
relating to acts or omissions of: c) Jurisdiction of any lower court
a) A MTC d) All cases in which only an error or
By special civil action of Certiorari filed
b) A corporation (30) days from notice of the judgment question of law is involved
c) A board / final order / resolution sought to be
d) An officer reviewed against the following: 4. Appeals from decisions or final resolutions of
e) A Person the CTA
2. Petitions for issuance of Writ of 1. Commission on Elections
Amparo
3. Petitions for issuance of Writ of 2. Commission on Audit
Habeas Data
With RTC:
 1. Actions affecting:
a) Ambassadors
b) Public Ministers
c) Consuls

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 COURT OF
APPEALS
ORIGINAL APPELATE
J. J.
Exclusive Concurrent By Notice of appeal or With Record on Appeal: (Ordinary Appeal) By Automatic Review in:
1. Actions for With the SC: 1. Appeals from RTC, except those appealable to the SC 1. Cases where the RTC imposed the Death
annulment of 1. Petitions for writs of CPM against: 2. Appeals from RTCs on: Penalty
judgments of a) National Labor a) Constitutional, Tax, jurisdictional questions involving questions of
fact which should be appealed first to the CA By Petition for Review:
RTC Relations Commission
3. Appeals from decisions and final orders of the Family Courts 1. Appeals from the Civil Service Commission
b) Civil Service Commission
2. Petitions for 4. Appeals from RTCs, where the penalty imposed is:
CPM involving With the SC & RTC: d) reclusion perpetua, 2. Appeals from RTCs in cases appealed from
an act or omission 1. Petitions for Habeas Corpus e) life imprisonment, MeTCs and MuCTCs which are not a
& Quo Warranto matter of right
of a quasi- f) A lesser penalty is imposed for offenses
judicial agency, 2. Actions to prevent and restrain committed on the same occasion or which arose
unless otherwise
violations of laws concerning
out of the same occurrence that gave rise to the 3. Appeals from awards, judgments, final
monopolies & combinations in orders, or resolutions of, or authorized by,
provided by law restraint of trade more severe offense for which the penalty of
death is imposed. quasi-judicial agencies in the exercise of
5. Direct Appeal from land registration and cadastral cases their quasi-judicial functions.
decided by MuTCs, MeTCs, MuCTC based on their
delegated jurisdiction.
With CA, Sandiganbayan & RTC:
1. Petitions for writs of CPM
4. Appeals from the National Commission on
Indigenous Peoples (NCIP)
relating to acts or omissions of: By Special Civil Action of Certiorari against:
a) A MTC 1. Decisions and Final resolutions of the National Labor
b) A corporation 5. Appeals from the Office of the Ombudsman
Relations Commission (NLRC)
c) A board in administrative disciplinary cases
d) An officer
e) A Person
2. Petitions for issuance of Writ of
Amparo
3. Petitions for issuance of Writ of
Habeas Data

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 SANDIGANBAY
AN
ORIGINAL APPELATE J.
J.
Exclusiv Concurrent Decisions and Final orders of
e RTCs in the exercise of their
1. Violation of RA 3019 (Anti-Graft), RA 1379 (Unlawful acquiring of property & Forfeiture With the SC: original or appellate jurisdiction
to the state), Chapter II, Sec.2, Title VII of the RPC, and other offenses committed BY 1. Petitions for issuance of writs of under PD 1606, as amended, shall
PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES in relation to their office, and PRIVATE C,P,M,HC,I, and other ancillary be appealable to the
INDIVIDUALS charged as co-principals, accomplices, and accessories including those writs in aid of its appellate Sandiganbayan in the manner
employed in government- owned or controlled corporations, where one or more of the provided by Rule 122 of the RoC.
jurisdiction, including quo
accused are officials occupying the following positions in government, whether in a
permanent, acting, or interim capacity, at the time of the commission of the offense: warranto arising in cases falling
under Eos 1, 2, 14 and 14-A
a) Officials of the Executive branch with salary grade “27” or higher
b) Members of Congress
c) Members of Judiciary
d) Members of Constitutional Commission
e) All other National and local officials with salary grade “27” or higher With the SC, CA & RTC:
1. Petitions for writs of CPM relating
2. Civil and Criminal cases filed pursuant to and in connection with: to acts or omissions of:
a) EO 1 (PCGG) a) A MTC
b) EO 2 (Regarding The Funds, Moneys, Assets, And Properties Illegally Acquired Or b) A corporation
Misappropriated By Former President Ferdinand Marcos, Mrs. Imelda Romualdez c) A board
Marcos, Their Close Relatives, Subordinates, Business Associates, Dummies, d) An officer
Agents, Or Nominees.) e) A Person
c) EO 14 (Defining the jurisdiction over cases involving the ILL-GOTTEN 2. Petitions for issuance of Writ of
WEALTH OF FORMER PRESIDENT FERDINAND E. MARCOS, mrs. Amparo
Imelda r. Marcos, members of their immediate family, close relatives, 3. Petitions for issuance of Writ of
subordinates, close and/or business associates, dummies, agents and nominees) Habeas Data
d) EO 14-A (amending EO 14)

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 3. Violations of RA 9610 (Anti-Money Laundering Act, as amended by RA 9194)
when committed by public officers and private persons who are in conspiracy with
such public officers

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C
ORIGINAL APPELATE J.
J.
CIVI CRIMINAL 1. All cases decided by
L lower courts (MeTC,
Exclusiv Concurrent Exclusive MuTCs, MuCTC etc.)
e in their respective
1. Subject of the action not capable of pecuniary With SC: 1. Criminal cases not within the territorial
estimation exclusive jurisdiction of any court, jurisdictions.
1. Actions affecting:
a) Ambassadors tribunal, or body.
2. Actions involving title or possession of real property
or interest therein where the assessed value exceeds b) Public Ministers
P20,000.00 or in Metro Manila, P50,000.00 except c) Consuls 2. Criminal cases where penalty exceeds (6)
for forcible entry and unlawful detainer years imprisonment irrespective of the
With SC & CA:
fine.
1. Petitions for Habeas Corpus & Quo Warranto
3. Actions in admiralty and maritime jurisdiction
where demand or claim exceeds P300,000.00 or in 2. Actions to prevent and restrain violations of 3. Criminal cases not falling within the
Metro Manila P400,000.00 laws concerning monopolies & combinations in exclusive original jurisdiction of the SB,
restraint of trade where none of the accused are occupying
4. Matters of probate, testate, or intestate, where With SC, CA & SB: positions with salary grade “27” or
gross value of estate exceeds P300,000.00 or in 1. Petitions for writs of CPM relating to acts or higher.
Metro Manila, P400,000.00
omissions of:
a) A MTC 4. Where penalty is a fine which exceeds
5. Cases not within the exclusive jurisdiction of any P4,000.00
b) A corporation
court, tribunal, person, or body exercising judicial
or quasi-judicial function c) A board
d) An officer 5. A whole complex crime when it is lodged
6. Other cases where demand, exclusive of interest, e) A Person with the Trial court having jurisdiction to
damages, attorney’s fees, litigation expenses and 2. Petitions for issuance of Writ of Amparo impose the maximum and most serious
costs, or value of property in controversy exceeds 3. Petitions for issuance of Writ of Habeas Data penalty imposable for an offense forming
P300,000.00 or in MM, 400,000.00 part of the complex crime.
With MeTC, MuTC, MuCTC:
1. Application for Protection Order under
7. Additional original jurisdiction transferred under
Sec. 5.2. of the Securities Regulation Code
Sec.10, RA 9282, unless there is a
Family
8. Application for issuance of writ of search and Court in the residence of petitioner.
seizure in civil actions for infringement of With Insurance Commission:

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 intellectual property rights 1. Claims not exceepding P100,000.00

9. Violations of RA 9160 “anti-money laundering act

of 2001” as amended by RA 9194

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 MeTC, MuTC, MuCTC, MuTC in
Cities
ORIGINAL
J.
Civi Criminal
l
Exclusiv Delegated Special Exclusiv Special
e e
1. Actions involving personal property valued at 1. Cadastral and land 1. Petition for Habeas 1. All violations of city or municipal 1. Applications
not more than P300,000.00 or in MM, registration cases Corpus in the ordinances committed within their for bail in the
P400,000.00 assigned by Supreme absence of ALL respective jurisdictions absence of all
court where there is no RTC judges. RTC judges.
2. Actions (including admiralty and maritime controversy or 2. All offenses punishable with
cases) demanding sums of money not opposition and in imprisonment for not more than (6)
exceeding P300,000, or in MM, P400,000.00, contested lots valued at years; provided that in offenses
exclusive of resulting costs or expenses more than P100,000.00 involving damage to property
through criminal negligence, they
3. Actions involving title or possession of real shall have exclusive original
property where the assessed value does not jurisdiction.
exceed P20,000.00 or in MM, P50,000.00
3. All offenses committed not falling
4. Provisional remedies in principal actions within within the exclusive jurisdiction of
their jurisdiction, and in proper cases, such as the Sandiganbayan where none of
preliminary attachment, preliminary injuction, the accused is occupying a position
appointment or receiver and delivery of with salary grade “27” and higher.
personal property.
4. In cases where the only penalty
5. Forcible entry and unlawful detainer, with provided by law is a fine not
jurisdiction to resolve issue of ownership to exceeding P4,000.00, the
determine issue of possession MeTCs have juridsiction

6. Probate proceedings, testate or intestate, where

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 gross value of estate does not exceed
P300,000.00 or in MM, P400,000.00

7. Inclusion and exclusion of voters

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 FAMILY
COURTS
EXCLUSIVE and
ORIGINAL J.
1. Criminal cases where:
a) One or more of the accused is below (18)yrs old but not less than (9)yrs old.
b) One or more of the victims is a minor at the time of the commission of the offense, PROVIDED, that if the minor is found guilty, the
court shall promulgate sentence and ascertain any civil liability which the accused may have incurred. (The sentence, however, shall
be suspended without need of application pursuant to PD 1903, “The Child and Youth Welfare Code”

2. Petitions for guardianship, custody of children, habeas corpus in relation to the latter
3. Petitions for adoption of children and the revocation thereof
4. Complaints for annulment of marriage, declaration of nullity of marriage, and those relating to marital status and property relations of husband and
wife or those living together under different status and agreements and petitions for dissolution of conjugal partnership of gains
5. Petitions for involuntary commitment of a child, for removal of custody against child-placement or child-caring agency or individual, and for
commitment of disabled child
6. Petitions for support and/or acknowledgement
7. Summary judicial proceedings brought under the provisions of EO.209 “The Family Code of the Philippines”
8. Petitions for declaration of status of children as abandoned, dependent, or neglected children, petitions for voluntary or involuntary commitment of
children, the suspension, termination, or restoration of parental authority and other cases cognizable under PD.603, and other related laws
9. Petitions for constitution of family home
10. Cases against minors cognizable under RA.9165 “The Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002”
11. Violation of RA 7610, otherwise known as the “Special Protection of Children Against Child Abuse, Exploration and Discrimination Act”
12. Violation of RA 9775, “Anti-Child Pornography Act of 2009”
13. Cases of domestic Violence against:
a) Women
b) Children
14. Cases of violence against women and their children under RA.9262 “Anti-violence against women and their children act of 2004”
including applications for protection under the same
15. Criminal cases involving juveniles if no preliminary investigation is required under Rule112,Sec.1 of RoC.

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