collegiate court

Likewise, a number of members sit as judges or justices of collegiate courts.

Over the years, it has produced senators, justices of collegiate courts, trial court judges, active lawyers and law professors.

The school has dominated past and present memberships in the Philippine Supreme Court and other collegiate courts.

These collegiate courts usually operate in chambers of at least three judges, exceptionally may operate as a plenary with the presence of the absolute majority of the members of the court.

While the prosecution is in charge of an autonomous authority (Ministerio Público), the actual judgement is made by a collegiate court (Tribunal de Juicio Oral en lo Penal).

The Board is headed by a Chairman who is a retired justice of a collegiate court (i.e., Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, Sandiganbayan, Court of Tax Appeals, etc.).

The court is a unitary collegiate court, with all judges other than the Lord President and the Lord Justice Clerk holding the same rank and title-Senator of the College of Justice and also Lord or Lady of Council and Session.

Such a condemnation by a collegiate court would have rendered Garotinho ineligible for the ensuing 2010 national election, but the Federal Electoral Court decided to grant him the right to run for the Federal Legislative on the Partido Republicano (Brazil) ticket, pending an appeal to the said court.