power vs review

• judicial power = vested in one Supreme Court and in such lower courts as may be established by the law
• judicial power = duty of the courts of justice to settle actual controversies involving rights which are legally demandable and enforceable
• judicial power = duty of the courts of justice to determine whether or not there has been a grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction on the part of any branch or instrumentality of the government
• judicial power = duty of the courts to apply the laws to contests or disputes concerning legally recognized rights or duties between the State and private persons or individuals, or between private persons or individual litigants, in cases properly brought before the judicial tribunals
• scope of judicial power: adjudicatory power

  • to settle actual controversies involving rights which are legally demandable and enforceable
• scope of judicial power: adjudicatory power

  • to determine whether there has been a grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction on the part of any branch or instrumentality of the government
• judicial review = power of the courts to test the validity of executive and legislative acts in the light of their conformity with the Constitution
• judicial power = vested in Supreme Court and lower courts
• judicial review = vested in Supreme Court and lower courts
• judicial power: requisite

  • jurisdiction = power to decide and hear a case and execute a decision
• judicial review: requisite

  • acting on the court's subject matter jurisdiction: there must be an actual case or controversy
• judicial review: requisite

  • acting on the court's subject matter jurisdiction: the person challenging the act must have locus standing
• judicial review: requisite

  • acting on the court's subject matter jurisdiction: the question of constitutionality must be raised at the earliest opportunity
• judicial review: requisite

  • acting on the court's subject matter jurisdiction: the issue of constitutionality must be the very lis motto (matter at hand) of the case