Laws & Jurisprudence
DOCTRINE OF NON-INTERFERENCE OR DOCTRINE OF JUDICIAL STABILITY
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Courts of equal and coordinate jurisdiction cannot interfere with
each other‘s orders.
The principle also bars a court from reviewing or interfering with
the judgment of a co-equal court over which it has no appellate jurisdiction or
power of review.
Thus, the RTC has no power to nullify or
enjoin the enforcement of a writ of possession issued by another RTC.
As a general rule, No court has the authority to interfere by injunction with the judgment of another court of coordinate jurisdiction or to pass upon or scrutinize and much less declare as unjust a judgment of another court. However, the doctrine does not apply where a third party claimant is involved (Santos v. Bayhon, G.R. No. 88643, July 23, 1991).
This doctrine applies with equal force to
administrative bodies. When the law provides for an appeal from the decision of
an administrative body to the SC or CA, it means that such body is co- equal
with the RTC in terms of rank and stature, and logically beyond the control of
the latter.
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