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The Land Registration Authority (LRA; Filipino: Pangasiwaan sa Patalaan ng Lupain) is an agency of the Philippine government attached to the Department of Justice responsible for issuing decrees of registration and certificates of title and register documents, patents and other land transaction for the benefit of landowners, agrarian reform-beneficiaries and the registering public in general ...
Regional Trial Court; Panrehiyong Hukuman sa Paglilitis: Composition method: Presidential appointment from the short-list submitted by the Judicial and Bar Council: Appeals to: Court of Appeals of the Philippines, Sandiganbayan: Appeals from: Metropolitan trial courts; Municipal trial courts in cities; Municipal trial courts; Municipal circuit ...
The Supreme Court (SC) is the highest court of the land and is the court of last resort. [ 1 ] : 6 It is led by the Chief Justice , who is joined by 14 Associate Justices . [ 1 ] : 39 The court has expansive powers and a constitutional responsibility to oversee other branches of government, able even to overrule the discretion of political and ...
The record from a trial court includes the evidence introduced by the parties and some form of record of the proceeding itself, which includes copies of all papers filed by the parties and a transcript of any trial, and it may include an audio or videotape of hearings, appearances, or arguments of motions.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on June 12, 2008, signed into law Republic Act 9503 (An Act Enlarging the Organizational Structure of the Court of Tax Appeals, Amending for the Purpose Certain Sections of the Law Creating the Court of Tax Appeals, and for Other Purposes), which added three more members (and one more division) to the court. The new law ...
An Act creating three (3) additional branches of the Municipal Trial Court in cities in the First Judicial Region to be stationed in the City of San Carlos, Province of Pangasinan, and appropriating funds therefor, amending for the purpose Section 29 of Batas Pambansa Blg. 129, otherwise known as the "Judiciary Reorganization Act of 1980", as ...
Among the current members of the court, Fernanda Lampas-Peralta is the longest-serving associate justice, with a tenure of 7,629 days (20 years, 324 days) as of December 29, 2024; the most recent justice to enter the court are Marietta S. Brawner-Cualing, Mary Josephine P. Lazaro, Ferdinand C. Baylon AND Emilio Rodolfo Y. Legaspi III August 29 ...
In the martial law-era 1973 Philippine Constitution (Sections 5 and 6, Article XIII), provided for the establishment of a special court called the Sandiganbayan and an office of the ombudsman called the Tanodbayan. [5] On June 11, 1978, during martial law, the late President Ferdinand Marcos created by presidential decree the office of the ...