Practice question
A claimant presents an otherwise proper case involving an existing legal right. The official respondent argues that judicial power concerns only criminal trials and never civil rights. What is the answer?
- The definition includes actual controversies involving legally demandable and enforceable rights and is not limited to criminal trials
- Only prosecutions qualify as actual controversies
- Only the police may decide civil legal rights
- A civil judgment is necessarily executive policymaking
- Every private moral disagreement is automatically justiciable
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353; Article VIII, Section 1.
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