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    The supreme court will have original jurisdiction over certain cases and review decisions of lower courts. It can review cases involving constitutionality, taxes, jurisdiction issues, and serious criminal cases. The court can also temporarily assign judges and order changes of venue. It can promulgate rules regarding constitutional rights, legal practice and procedure, and the bar exam.

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    The supreme court will have original jurisdiction over certain cases and review decisions of lower courts. It can review cases involving constitutionality, taxes, jurisdiction issues, and serious criminal cases. The court can also temporarily assign judges and order changes of venue. It can promulgate rules regarding constitutional rights, legal practice and procedure, and the bar exam.

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    The supreme court will have original jurisdiction over certain cases and review decisions of lower courts. It can review cases involving constitutionality, taxes, jurisdiction issues, and serious criminal cases. The court can also temporarily assign judges and order changes of venue. It can promulgate rules regarding constitutional rights, legal practice and procedure, and the bar exam.

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    ARTICLE VIII

    JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT

    Section 5: The supreme court will have the following powers:

    (1) Exercise original jurisdiction over cases affecting ambassadors, other public
    ministers and consuls, and over petitions for certiorari, prohibition,
    mandamus, quo warranto, and habeas corpus.

    (2) Review, revise, reverse, modify or affirm on appeal or certiorari, as the law or
    the Rules of Court may provide, final judgements and orders of lower courts
    in:

    a. All cases in which the constitutionality or validity of any treaty,


    international or executive agreement, law, presidential decree,
    proclamation, order, instruction, or ordinance, or regulation is in
    question
    b. All cases involving the legality of any tax, impost, assessment, or toll,
    or any penalty imposed in relation thereto.
    c. All cases in which the jurisdiction of any lower court is in issue
    d. All criminal cases in which the penalty imposed is reclusion perpetua
    or higher.
    e. All cases in which only an error or question of law is involved.

    (3) Assign temporarily judges of lower courts to other stations as public interest
    may require. Such temporary assignment shall not exceed six months without
    the consent of the judge concerned.

    (4) Order a change of venue or place of trial to avoid a miscarriage of justice.

    (5)Promulgate rules concerning the protection and enforcement of


    constitutional rights, pleading, practice, and procedure in all courts,
    the admission to the practice of law, the integrated bar, the legal
    assistance to the under privileged. Such rules shall 7provide a
    simplified and inexpensive procedure for the speedy disposition of
    cases, shall be uniform for all court of the same grade, and shall
    not diminish, increase, or modify substantive rights, Rules of
    procedure of special courts and quasi-judicial bodies shall remain
    effective unless disapproved by the Supreme Court.

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