The principal trial court, with Metropolitan and Municipal Trial Courts below it for lesser matters. Barangay conciliation under the Katarungang Pambarangay system is a mandatory precondition for many neighbourhood-level civil disputes: filing in court without a certification to file action will normally get the case dismissed.
How the court is constituted
- Tier
- first instance
- Court type
- General first-instance court
- Jurisdiction
- First-instance civil claims above the statutory threshold, serious criminal offences, family and juvenile matters in designated Family Courts, and commercial and intellectual-property cases in designated Special Commercial Courts.
- Seat
- Judicial regions nationwide
- Established
- 1981
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