Article VIII
“The judicial power shall be vested in one Supreme
Court and in such lower courts as may be established
by law.
Judicial power includes the duty of the courts of justice
to settle actual controversies involving rights which are
legally demandable and enforceable, and to determine
whether or not there has been a grave abuse of
discretion amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction
on the part of any branch or instrumentality of the
Government.”
▶Power to apply the laws to settle disputes
between the State and private persons, or
between individual litigants
▶Interpret the law to make it enforceable and
binding to all
▶Supreme Court and other lower courts
▶ Adjudicatory Power
◦ To settle actual controversies involving rights
◦ To determine whether there has been a grave abuse of
discretion to lack or excess of jurisdiction
◦ Legality of actions
Lack of jurisdiction
Lack of authority to act on the matter in dispute
▶ Judicial Review
◦ Interpret the law and make them binding judgements
◦ Constitutionality of the laws
◦ Constitutionality of no permit no rally policy
▶ Incidental Power
◦ powers essential for the discharge of their judiciary function
◦ Contempt of Court
◦ Subpoena
◦ Warrant of Arrest
▶ Power of the court to interpret the Constitution
▶To declare any legislative or executive act as
unconstitutional and invalid
◦ Grave abuse of discretion
▶To uphold supremacy of the Constitution
▶Limited to validity and legality issues
▶ Final decision maker
▶ Highest court of the land
Classes of Courts
▶ Constitutional Court
◦ Provided by the constitution
◦ One Supreme Court
▶ Statutory Courts
◦ Creations of law
Legislative
◦ Lower courts
Courts below the Supreme Court
▶ Regular
◦ Court of Appeals
◦ Regional Trial Court
Metropolitan Trial Court
Municipal Trial Court
Municipal Circuit Trial Court
◦ Shari’a District Court
▶ Special
◦ Sandiganbayan
Review cases filed against government officials
◦ Court of Tax Appeals
Review appeals on the decisions of the BIR
▶Agencies under the Executive Department
performing duties similar to the Judicial
Department
▶Make pronouncements and judgements on certain
issues
◦ Commission on Elections
◦ National Labor Relations Commission
◦ Securities and Exchange Commission
◦ They render judgements just like the Judicial
Department, yet they form part of the Executive
Department
▶The Supreme Court shall have the following
powers:
1. Exercise original jurisdiction over cases affecting
ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls,
and over petitions for certiorari, prohibition,
mandamus, quo warranto, and habeas corpus.
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:
◦ All cases in which the constitutionality or validity of any treaty,
international or executive agreement, law, presidential decree,
proclamation, order, instruction, ordinance, or regulation is in question.
◦ All cases involving the legality of any tax, impost, assessment, or toll, or
any penalty imposed in relation thereto.
◦ All cases in which the jurisdiction of any lower court is in issue.
◦ All criminal cases in which the penalty imposed is reclusion perpetua or
higher.
◦ All cases in which only an error or question of law is involved.
3. Assign temporarily judges of lower courts to other stations as public
interest may require. Such temporary assignment shall not exceed six
months without the consent of the judge concerned.
4. Order a change of venue or place of trial to avoid a miscarriage of justice.
5. Promulgate rules concerning the protection and enforcement of
constitutional rights, pleading, practice, and procedure in all courts, the
admission to the practice of law, the integrated bar, and legal assistance
to the under-privileged. Such rules shall provide a simplified and
inexpensive procedure for the speedy disposition of cases, shall be
uniform for all courts of the same grade, and shall not diminish, increase,
or modify substantive rights. Rules of procedure of special courts and
quasi-judicial bodies shall remain effective unless disapproved by the
Supreme Court.
6. Appoint all officials and employees of the Judiciary in accordance with the
Civil Service Law.
▶ Settle disputes concerning consuls or diplomats
◦ They enjoy immunity from domestic suits or cases
▶Petition for Certiorari
◦ Special civil action requesting a lower court or body to
transmit the records to the superior court for review
▶Prohibition
◦ Writ by which the superior court prohibits the lower court
or body to stop further proceedings
▶ Mandamus
◦ Order by a superior court to a lower court to do perform a
certain act which it is bound to do so
▶Quo Warranto
◦ Action by the government to recover an office or
franchise from an individual unlawfully holding it
▶Automatic Review of Cases sentenced by lower
court with Reclusion Perpetua or Death Penalty
(1) No person shall be appointed Member of the
Supreme Court or any lower collegiate court
unless he is a natural-born citizen of the
Philippines. A Member of the Supreme Court
must be at least forty years of age, and must
have been for fifteen years or more, a judge of a
lower court or engaged in the practice of law in
the Philippines.
(2) The Congress shall prescribe the qualifications
of judges of lower courts, but no person may be
appointed judge thereof unless he is a citizen of
the Philippines and a member of the Philippine
Bar.
(3) A Member of the Judiciary must be a person of
proven competence, integrity, probity, and
independence.
▶ Natural-born Philippine citizen
▶ At least 40 years old
▶At least 15 years experience of being Judge at the lower
court or engaged in the practice of law
▶Person of proven competence, integrity, probity and
independence
▶For lower court Judges, natural-born citizenship
requirement is not necessary
(1) The Members of the Supreme Court and judges
of lower courts shall be appointed by the
President from a list of at least three nominees
preferred by the Judicial and Bar Council for
every vacancy. Such appointments need no
confirmation.
(2) For the lower courts, the President shall issued
the appointment within ninety days from the
submission of the list.
▶List of three nominees submitted by the Judicial
and Bar Council (JBC)
▶ President will choose from the list
“The Members of the Supreme Court and judges of
the lower court shall hold office during good
behavior until they reach the age of seventy years or
become incapacitated to discharge the duties of
their office. The Supreme Court en banc shall have
the power to discipline judges of lower courts, or
order their dismissal by a vote of majority of the
Members who actually took part in the deliberations
on the issues in the case and voted in thereon.”
▶ Retiring age at 70 years old
▶Incapable of discharging duties
◦ Physically or mentally
▶Requires to be impeached to be removed from
office
(1) The Supreme Court shall be composed of a Chief Justice and
fourteen Associate Justices. It may sit en banc or in its discretion, in
division of three, five, or seven Members. Any vacancy shall be
filled within ninety days from the occurrence thereof.
(2) All cases involving the constitutionality of a treaty, international or
executive agreement, or law, which shall be heard by the Supreme
Court en banc, and all other cases which under the Rules of Court
are required to be heard en banc, including those involving the
constitutionality, application, or operation of presidential decrees,
proclamations, orders, instructions, ordinances, and other
regulations, shall be decided with the concurrence of a majority of
the Members who actually took part in the deliberations on the
issues in the case and voted thereon.
(3) Cases or matters heard by a division shall be
decided or resolved with the concurrence of a
majority of the Members who actually took part in
the deliberations on the issues in the case and voted
thereon, and in no case without the concurrence of
at least three of such Members. When the required
number is not obtained, the case shall be decided
en banc: Provided, that no doctrine or principle of
law laid down by the court in a decision rendered en
banc or in division may be modified or reversed
except by the court sitting en banc.
▶ Composed of 15 Judges
▶Chief Justice
▶Appointed by the President
▶Hearing Procedure
◦ In performance of their job, are they required to always
meet as a single group of 15?
◦ Due to the huge volume of pending cases filed at them
En banc
Divisions of three members (5 divisions)
Divisions of five members (3 divisions)
Divisions of seven members (2 divisions)
- Gravity and importance of the case
- At least three judges agreeing
▶ Constitutionality Issues
◦ treaty, international law, executive agreement, laws
◦ presidential decrees, proclamations, and orders
Majority of the members of the judiciary who participated in
the hearing
If majority votes were not obtained, constitutionality is upheld
15 members – quorum is 8 – votes required is only 5
▶Administrative proceedings for the dismissal of a
judge of a lower court
▶Cases where majority vote is not obtained at the lower
courts
◦ Division with 3 members
◦ Majority vote is equals to?
3 votes
◦ What will happen if two judges agreed, the other disagreed?
Case will be decided by en banc
▶Modifying decisions in cases decided in an en banc
session
▶Among the three branches of government, independence
of the Judiciary is very important
▶ Why?
▶ Confidence in the government
◦ Being aware that you have someone to depend on in case of
disputes or conflicts
▶ Preservation of the government
◦ Settle issues being different government agencies
▶ Respect for law and order
◦ Organized and civilized society

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Article 8 Judiciary.pptx

  • 2. “The judicial power shall be vested in one Supreme Court and in such lower courts as may be established by law. Judicial power includes the duty of the courts of justice to settle actual controversies involving rights which are legally demandable and enforceable, and to determine whether or not there has been a grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction on the part of any branch or instrumentality of the Government.”
  • 3. ▶Power to apply the laws to settle disputes between the State and private persons, or between individual litigants ▶Interpret the law to make it enforceable and binding to all ▶Supreme Court and other lower courts
  • 4. ▶ Adjudicatory Power ◦ To settle actual controversies involving rights ◦ To determine whether there has been a grave abuse of discretion to lack or excess of jurisdiction ◦ Legality of actions Lack of jurisdiction Lack of authority to act on the matter in dispute ▶ Judicial Review ◦ Interpret the law and make them binding judgements ◦ Constitutionality of the laws ◦ Constitutionality of no permit no rally policy ▶ Incidental Power ◦ powers essential for the discharge of their judiciary function ◦ Contempt of Court ◦ Subpoena ◦ Warrant of Arrest
  • 5. ▶ Power of the court to interpret the Constitution ▶To declare any legislative or executive act as unconstitutional and invalid ◦ Grave abuse of discretion ▶To uphold supremacy of the Constitution ▶Limited to validity and legality issues
  • 6. ▶ Final decision maker ▶ Highest court of the land Classes of Courts ▶ Constitutional Court ◦ Provided by the constitution ◦ One Supreme Court ▶ Statutory Courts ◦ Creations of law Legislative ◦ Lower courts Courts below the Supreme Court
  • 7. ▶ Regular ◦ Court of Appeals ◦ Regional Trial Court Metropolitan Trial Court Municipal Trial Court Municipal Circuit Trial Court ◦ Shari’a District Court ▶ Special ◦ Sandiganbayan Review cases filed against government officials ◦ Court of Tax Appeals Review appeals on the decisions of the BIR
  • 8. ▶Agencies under the Executive Department performing duties similar to the Judicial Department ▶Make pronouncements and judgements on certain issues ◦ Commission on Elections ◦ National Labor Relations Commission ◦ Securities and Exchange Commission ◦ They render judgements just like the Judicial Department, yet they form part of the Executive Department
  • 9. ▶The Supreme Court shall have the following powers: 1. Exercise original jurisdiction over cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and over petitions for certiorari, prohibition, mandamus, quo warranto, and habeas corpus.
  • 10. 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: ◦ All cases in which the constitutionality or validity of any treaty, international or executive agreement, law, presidential decree, proclamation, order, instruction, ordinance, or regulation is in question. ◦ All cases involving the legality of any tax, impost, assessment, or toll, or any penalty imposed in relation thereto. ◦ All cases in which the jurisdiction of any lower court is in issue. ◦ All criminal cases in which the penalty imposed is reclusion perpetua or higher. ◦ All cases in which only an error or question of law is involved.
  • 11. 3. Assign temporarily judges of lower courts to other stations as public interest may require. Such temporary assignment shall not exceed six months without the consent of the judge concerned. 4. Order a change of venue or place of trial to avoid a miscarriage of justice. 5. Promulgate rules concerning the protection and enforcement of constitutional rights, pleading, practice, and procedure in all courts, the admission to the practice of law, the integrated bar, and legal assistance to the under-privileged. Such rules shall provide a simplified and inexpensive procedure for the speedy disposition of cases, shall be uniform for all courts of the same grade, and shall not diminish, increase, or modify substantive rights. Rules of procedure of special courts and quasi-judicial bodies shall remain effective unless disapproved by the Supreme Court. 6. Appoint all officials and employees of the Judiciary in accordance with the Civil Service Law.
  • 12. ▶ Settle disputes concerning consuls or diplomats ◦ They enjoy immunity from domestic suits or cases ▶Petition for Certiorari ◦ Special civil action requesting a lower court or body to transmit the records to the superior court for review ▶Prohibition ◦ Writ by which the superior court prohibits the lower court or body to stop further proceedings
  • 13. ▶ Mandamus ◦ Order by a superior court to a lower court to do perform a certain act which it is bound to do so ▶Quo Warranto ◦ Action by the government to recover an office or franchise from an individual unlawfully holding it ▶Automatic Review of Cases sentenced by lower court with Reclusion Perpetua or Death Penalty
  • 14. (1) No person shall be appointed Member of the Supreme Court or any lower collegiate court unless he is a natural-born citizen of the Philippines. A Member of the Supreme Court must be at least forty years of age, and must have been for fifteen years or more, a judge of a lower court or engaged in the practice of law in the Philippines.
  • 15. (2) The Congress shall prescribe the qualifications of judges of lower courts, but no person may be appointed judge thereof unless he is a citizen of the Philippines and a member of the Philippine Bar. (3) A Member of the Judiciary must be a person of proven competence, integrity, probity, and independence.
  • 16. ▶ Natural-born Philippine citizen ▶ At least 40 years old ▶At least 15 years experience of being Judge at the lower court or engaged in the practice of law ▶Person of proven competence, integrity, probity and independence ▶For lower court Judges, natural-born citizenship requirement is not necessary
  • 17. (1) The Members of the Supreme Court and judges of lower courts shall be appointed by the President from a list of at least three nominees preferred by the Judicial and Bar Council for every vacancy. Such appointments need no confirmation. (2) For the lower courts, the President shall issued the appointment within ninety days from the submission of the list.
  • 18. ▶List of three nominees submitted by the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) ▶ President will choose from the list
  • 19. “The Members of the Supreme Court and judges of the lower court shall hold office during good behavior until they reach the age of seventy years or become incapacitated to discharge the duties of their office. The Supreme Court en banc shall have the power to discipline judges of lower courts, or order their dismissal by a vote of majority of the Members who actually took part in the deliberations on the issues in the case and voted in thereon.”
  • 20. ▶ Retiring age at 70 years old ▶Incapable of discharging duties ◦ Physically or mentally ▶Requires to be impeached to be removed from office
  • 21. (1) The Supreme Court shall be composed of a Chief Justice and fourteen Associate Justices. It may sit en banc or in its discretion, in division of three, five, or seven Members. Any vacancy shall be filled within ninety days from the occurrence thereof. (2) All cases involving the constitutionality of a treaty, international or executive agreement, or law, which shall be heard by the Supreme Court en banc, and all other cases which under the Rules of Court are required to be heard en banc, including those involving the constitutionality, application, or operation of presidential decrees, proclamations, orders, instructions, ordinances, and other regulations, shall be decided with the concurrence of a majority of the Members who actually took part in the deliberations on the issues in the case and voted thereon.
  • 22. (3) Cases or matters heard by a division shall be decided or resolved with the concurrence of a majority of the Members who actually took part in the deliberations on the issues in the case and voted thereon, and in no case without the concurrence of at least three of such Members. When the required number is not obtained, the case shall be decided en banc: Provided, that no doctrine or principle of law laid down by the court in a decision rendered en banc or in division may be modified or reversed except by the court sitting en banc.
  • 23. ▶ Composed of 15 Judges ▶Chief Justice ▶Appointed by the President ▶Hearing Procedure ◦ In performance of their job, are they required to always meet as a single group of 15? ◦ Due to the huge volume of pending cases filed at them En banc Divisions of three members (5 divisions) Divisions of five members (3 divisions) Divisions of seven members (2 divisions) - Gravity and importance of the case - At least three judges agreeing
  • 24. ▶ Constitutionality Issues ◦ treaty, international law, executive agreement, laws ◦ presidential decrees, proclamations, and orders Majority of the members of the judiciary who participated in the hearing If majority votes were not obtained, constitutionality is upheld 15 members – quorum is 8 – votes required is only 5 ▶Administrative proceedings for the dismissal of a judge of a lower court
  • 25. ▶Cases where majority vote is not obtained at the lower courts ◦ Division with 3 members ◦ Majority vote is equals to? 3 votes ◦ What will happen if two judges agreed, the other disagreed? Case will be decided by en banc ▶Modifying decisions in cases decided in an en banc session
  • 26. ▶Among the three branches of government, independence of the Judiciary is very important ▶ Why? ▶ Confidence in the government ◦ Being aware that you have someone to depend on in case of disputes or conflicts ▶ Preservation of the government ◦ Settle issues being different government agencies ▶ Respect for law and order ◦ Organized and civilized society