<Li> City / Municipal Vice-Mayor </Li> <Li> Barangay Captain / Barangay Upuan </Li> <P> The judicial power is vested in the Supreme Court of the Philippines and lower courts established by law . The Supreme Court, which has a Chief Justice as its head and 14 Associate Justices, occupies the highest tier of the judiciary . The justices serve until the age of 70 . The justices are appointed by the president on the recommendation of the Judicial and Bar Council of the Philippines . The sitting Chief Justice is Maria Lourdes Sereno, the 24th to serve in that position...</P> <P> Other court types of courts, of varying jurisdiction around the archipelago, are the: Lower Collegiate Courts: </P>

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