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The judiciary of the Philippines consists of the Supreme Court, which is established in the Constitution, and three levels of lower courts, which are established through law by the Congress of the Philippines. The Supreme Court has expansive powers, able to overrule political and administrative decisions, and with the ability to craft rules and ...
3.19 Incumbent Supreme Court Justices During the Chief Justiceship of Artemio V. Panganiban, Jr. (2005–2006) 3.20 Incumbent Supreme Court Justices During the Chief Justiceship of Reynato S. Puno (2006–2010)
In 1951, the Court transferred back to what is now the Court's Old Building, originally built to house of School of Fine Arts and Conservatory of Music of the University of the Philippines. The façade of this building displays the busts of the first nine Chief Justices of the Supreme Court and the statues of Lady Justice and Moses at its entrance.
Pursuant to the Constitution, the Court of Appeals "reviews not only the decisions and orders of the Regional Trial Courts awards, judgments, final orders or resolutions of, or authorized by administrative agencies exercising quasi-judicial functions mentioned in Rule 43 of the 1997 Rules of Civil Procedure, plus the National Amnesty Commission ...
The government of the Philippines (Filipino: Pamahalaan ng Pilipinas) has three interdependent branches: the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.The Philippines is governed as a unitary state under a presidential representative and democratic constitutional republic in which the president functions as both the head of state and the head of government of the country within a pluriform ...
The order of precedence in the Philippines is the protocol used in ranking government officials and other personages in the Philippines. [1] Purely ceremonial in nature, it has no legal standing, and does not reflect the presidential line of succession nor the equal status of the three branches of government established in the 1987 Constitution .
[24]: 46 Courts are arranged in a three-level hierarchy, [24]: 8–9 with each level able to review only rulings at lower levels. [27] Within the regular court system, [24]: 8–9 the Court of Appeals is the second-highest appellate court. [28]
A supreme court is the highest court within the hierarchy of courts in most legal jurisdictions. ... Philippines: Supreme Court of the Philippines: