Practice question
A Section 5 cybercrime action could properly be filed in either of two designated courts because each has a specified territorial connection. It is first filed in one. What does Section 2.1 provide?
- The first court acquires jurisdiction to the exclusion of the other courts.
- Both must simultaneously conduct full trials of the same action.
- The second court automatically displaces the first.
- Neither can proceed because two venues were possible.
- The accused alone may transfer it by sending a letter.
Legal references
- https://oca.judiciary.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/A.M.-No.-17-11-03-SC.pdf — Rule on Cybercrime Warrants, Section 2.1.
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