REPUBLIC Act (RA) 11576 was enacted 2021, amending Batas Pambansa (BP) 129, or the Judiciary Reorganization Act of 1980, by revising and increasing the jurisdiction thresholds of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) and First-Level Courts, i.e., the Metropolitan Trial Courts, Municipal Trial Courts in Cities, Municipal Trial Courts and Municipal Circuit Trial Courts.
Chief Justice Alexander G. Gesmundo and other SC Justices during the 10th Council of ASEAN Chief Justices Meeting in Malaysia on Nov. 4, 2022.
Chief Justice Alexander G. Gesmundo is set to propose to the judiciaries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) the “adoption of common