History of the PH Judiciary

The _______ is the progeny of the tribunal established by Act No. 136 of the Philippine Commission on June 11, 1901.

• Supreme Court

• Royal Audencia

• Court of First Instance

• Municipal Trial Court

True or False: During the pre-colonial Philippines, questions were settled through a "court", with the Datu as the "Judge" and the informer debated their case by introducing their witnesses.

It served as the judicial arm of the Spanish colonial government

• Encomienda

• Royal Audencia

• Autos Acordados

• Pueblo

True or False: During the Japanese War, authorities reestablished the Audiencia Teritorial de Manila which was to apply previous laws and jurisprudence recognized by the military governor as continuing in force.

Who signed the 1935 Philippine Constitution that was adopted by the Constitutional Convention and was ratified by the Filipinos?

• Major General Otis Well

• President Franklin Roosevelt

• Chief Justice Cayetano Arellano

• None of the above

Throughout the period since Liberation, Supreme Court failed to maintain and strengthen its prestige. Faced by difficult decisions during the Japanese Occupation, the Court did not win the respect for legal consistency and impartiality.

After the second world war, this law grouped together the cases over which the Supreme Court could exercise exclusive jurisdiction to review on appeal, certiorari or writ of error, among others.

• Act No. 316

• R.A. 296

• PD 1948

• BP 139

True or False: The 1973 Constitution increased the number of the members of the Supreme Court from 11 to 15, with a Chief Justice and 14 Associate Justices.

__________ includes the duty of the courts of justice to settle actual controversies involving rights which are legally demandable and enforceable, and to determine whether or not there has been a grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction on the part of any branch or instrumentality of the Government

• Judicial Power

• Judicial Prerogative

• Justiciable Question

• Transcendental Importance

BP 129 was amended by RA 11576 on what year?

• 2020

• 2021

• 2022

• 2023