Practice question
The Supreme Court resolves a matter through a constitutionally authorized division with all required votes. A party argues that a division consists of several independent first-level courts merely because fewer than all justices participated. Which is correct?
- Every justice becomes a separate municipal court
- It is a sitting of the collegial Supreme Court, not several municipal courts
- Any division is a private arbitral panel
- The Court exists only when every justice attends
- Divisions necessarily lose constitutional identity
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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