Judicial Department

Question 1

Judicial Power

Answer 1

Power of duty and courts of justice to interpret and apply the laws (including the constitution) to contest and disputes concerning legally recognized rights or duties between the state and private persons or individuals, or between private persons or individual litigants in cases properly brought before the judicial tribunals

Question 2

Adjudicatory Power

Answer 2

Power to settle controversies revolving rights which are legally demandable and enforecable.

Question 3

Power of Judicial Review

Answer 3

To pass upon the constitutionality and validity of the laws of the state. To interpret. To pass binding judgement

Question 4

Incidental power

Answer 4

Discharge of judicial functions such as the power to punish persons adjudged in contempt

Question 5

Grave abuse of discretion

Answer 5

Lack of authority to act on the matter in dispute

Question 6

Supreme Court

Answer 6

A constitutional court, in the sense of being a creation of the constitution

Question 7

Statutory Courts

Answer 7

Courts created by law. Lower courts of the constitution

Question 8

Organization of courts

Answer 8

Regular Courts

Special Courts

Question 9

Court of Appeals

Answer 9

Composes of 69 justices, headed by one presiding justice

Question 10

Regional Trial Court

Answer 10

Presided by 720 trial judges in each region

Question 11

Sandigan Bayan

Answer 11

With 14 justices and a presiding justice, created by PDT606, pursuant to the mandate of the 1973 Constitution

Question 12

Court of Tax Appeals

Answer 12

With 5 justices and a presiding justice

Question 13

Importance of the Judiciary

Answer 13

1. Confidence in the creation and even administration of justice
2. Preservation of the government
3. Respect for Law and Order

Question 14

Supreme Court Composition

Answer 14

14 Associate Justices and 1 Chief Justice

Question 15

Sitting Procedure

Answer 15

En Banc- One Body

Divisions- In division of 3,5,7 the different sizes of divisions would indicate the relative importance of the case being heard.

Question 16

Powers of the SC

Answer 16

1. Exercise original jurisdiction over cases affecting ambassadors
2. Review, revise, reverse, modify, or affirm an appeal or certiorari as the law or courts may provide
3. Assign temporary judges of lower courts to the other stations
4. Order a change of venue or place of trial
5. Promulgate rules concerning the protection and enforcement of constitutional rights
6. Appoint all officials & employees of the judiciary

Question 17

Certiorari

Answer 17

Writ issued from a superior court requiring a lower court or officer, exercising judicial functions to transmit the records of a case to the superior court for the purpose of review.

Question 18

Prohibition

Answer 18

Writ by which a superior court commands the lower court, or a corporation, board, or person acting without/ in excess of its or his jurisdiction or with grave abuse of discretion

Question 19

Mandamus

Answer 19

Order issued by a superior court, commanding a lower court, or a corporation, board, or person, to perform a certain act which is his duty to do

Question 20

Quo Warranto

Answer 20

Action by the government to recover an office or franchise from an individual or corporation usurping or unlawfully holding it