Regional Trial Courts

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Regional Trial Courts are the primary trial-level courts in the Philippines that handle major civil and criminal cases within their respective judicial regions.

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Regional Trial Courts canonical 3
Regional Trial Court 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf court system
judicial body
trial court
alsoKnownAs RTC NERFINISHED
appealsTo Court of Appeals of the Philippines NERFINISHED
Sandiganbayan NERFINISHED
appointmentOfJudgesBy President of the Philippines NERFINISHED
budgetSource Government of the Philippines NERFINISHED
canIssue search warrants
warrants of arrest
writ of attachment
writ of habeas corpus
writ of preliminary injunction
composedOf Regional Trial Court judges
country Philippines
dateEstablished 1981
establishedBy Batas Pambansa Blg. 129 NERFINISHED
governedBy 1987 Constitution of the Philippines NERFINISHED
Batas Pambansa Blg. 129 NERFINISHED
Judiciary Reorganization Act of 1980 NERFINISHED
handles admiralty and maritime cases above jurisdictional amounts
appeals from first-level courts on questions of fact and law
cases involving titles to or possession of real property above jurisdictional amounts
civil actions in which the subject of litigation is incapable of pecuniary estimation
probate matters above jurisdictional amounts
serious criminal offenses
hasDivision civil
commercial
criminal
family
special courts
headedBy Executive Judge
jurisdiction cases not within the exclusive jurisdiction of lower courts
major civil cases
major criminal cases
languageOfProceedings English
Filipino
levelInJudicialHierarchy first-level trial court above first-level courts
location each province in the Philippines
selected cities in the Philippines
numberOfJudicialRegions 13 GENERATED
organizedBy judicial region
partOf Judiciary of the Philippines NERFINISHED
Philippine trial court system NERFINISHED
predecessor Courts of First Instance of the Philippines NERFINISHED
recommendationForJudgesBy Judicial and Bar Council NERFINISHED
subordinateTo Supreme Court of the Philippines NERFINISHED
supervisedBy Supreme Court of the Philippines NERFINISHED

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Batas Pambansa Blg. 129 establishes Regional Trial Courts
Executive Judge (per station) partOf Regional Trial Courts
this entity surface form: Regional Trial Court
MeTC contrastedWith Regional Trial Courts
Revised Rules of Civil Procedure appliesTo Regional Trial Courts