Practice question
A Municipal Circuit Trial Court serves several grouped municipalities. Counsel argues that geographic breadth alone makes it a Regional Trial Court. Which is correct?
- Its service area removes all trial functions
- Any multi-town court is necessarily an RTC
- Geography automatically makes it a Court of Appeals division
- The parties may rename it into a higher court
- The statutory institutional identity remains an MCTC
Legal references
- BP129 Sections22,23,25 and35 (institutional classifications, without monetary thresholds): https://lawphil.net/statutes/bataspam/bp1981/bp_129_1981.html
- 1987 Constitution, Article VIII Sections4 and5(5): https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
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