JURISDICTION OF COURTS IN CIVIL CASES:

SC CA RTC MTC
Exclusive original Exclusive original Exceeding: NOT exceeding:
jurisdiction in jurisdiction in action 1. Php 300k outside 1. Php 300k outside
petitions for for annulment of the M.M. or M.M. or
certiorari, judgment of RTC. 2. Php 400k within 2. Php400k within M.M
prohibition, and M.M.
mandamus against
the: a. Personal Property
a. CA b. Estate, or
b. COA c. Amount of demand involved in civil
c. COMELEC action;
d. Sandigangbaya
n *Excluding damages, interest, attorney’s fee,
e. CTA litigation expenses and cost. [DIALeC]
Civil cases involving Civil cases involving title
title to, possession to, possession of, or
of, or interest interest therein, over real
therein, over real property- NOT exceeding
property- exceeding Php 200,000.00 outside
Php 200,000.00 Metro Manila, or Php
outside Metro 50,000.00
Manila, or Php
50,000.00
Concurrent Concurrent original I. Original and I. Exclusive original
original jurisdiction with the exclusive jurisdiction to grant
jurisdiction with jurisdiction to provisional remedies
the 1. SC in petition hear and decide (provided MTC has
for certiorari, intra corporate jurisdiction over the
1. CA in petition prohibition, and dispute (sec. 5.2 principle action)
for Certiorari, mandamus of SRC in rel. to
prohibition, and against the: PD 902-A) II. Exclusive jurisdiction
mandamus a. RTC over cases falling
against the: b. CSC II. Exclusive under:
a. RTC c. CBAA original a. Summary
b. CSC d. NLRC, and jurisdiction in procedure and
c. CBAA e. Other all civil actions small claims
d. NLRC, and quasi- and special cases;
e. Other judicial proceedings in b. Forcible entry
quasi- agencies exclusive and unlawful
judicial original
detainer.
agencies 2. SC and RTC in jurisdiction of
petition for the juvenile and
III. Delegated
2. CA and RTC in certiorari, Domestic
jurisdiction over
petition for prohibition, and Relations Court
cadastral and land
certiorari, mandamus and the Court of
registration cases.
prohibition and against lower Agrarian
mandamus court bodies Relations.
IV. Special jurisdiction to
against lower and quo
hear and decide case
courts and warranto and III. Concurrent
petition for habeas
bodies and quo habeas corpus original
corpus in the
warranto and jurisdiction with
absence of all RTC
habeas corpus *subject to the SC in cases
judges in the
doctrine of affecting:
province or city.
*subject to the hierarchy of courts
doctrine of a. Ambassador
hierarchy of courts s;
b. Public
Concurrent minister;
original and
jurisdiction with c. Consuls
the RTC in cases
affecting: IV. Concurrent
a. Ambassadors; original
b. Public jurisdiction with
Minister; and SC and CA in
c. Consuls. petition for
certiorari,
prohibition,
mandamus
against lower
courts and
bodies and quo
warranto
proceedings
and habeas
corpus.

*subject to the
doctrine of
hierarchy of courts.

V. Jurisdiction over
 the cases
incapable of
pecuniary
estimation.
Appellate Exclusive appellate I. Appellate
jurisdiction by way jurisdiction by way jurisdiction over
of petition for of: all cases
review on decided by
certiorari (Rule 45) 1. Ordinary Appeal MeTC, MTC,
against the: from the RTC MCTC.
and Family
a. CA; Courts. II. Special
b. Sandigangbay jurisdiction. (see
an; 2. Petition for sec. 23, BP 129)
c. RTC on pure review from:
question of
law; a. RTC in the
d. Cases decisions
involving the rendered in
constitutionali the exercise
ty or validity of its
of law, treaty, appellate
etc. (see: sec. jurisdiction;
5, Art. VII, b. Decisions,
1987 resolutions,
Constitution) awards of the
e. CTA in its CSC bodies
decision mentioned in
rendering en Rule 43.
banc
3. Decision of
ombudsman in
administrative
cases.

Appellate
jurisdiction over
decisions of MTC in
cadastral and land
registration cases
pursuit to its
delegated
jurisdiction.