Can a Court grant a PPO even if the applicant-victim is out of the country?      An opponent of ours thinks not. According to him, the PPO will be useless since it’s only enforceable within Philippine territory; in fac ...   Read More

     Does substantial evidence mean that the hearing officer or tribunal can disregard basic rules of evidence, such as the inadmissibility of hearsay statements, considering that its own rules of procedure says that it is not bound by the t ...   Read More

We’ve requested for production of documents which are in the possession of the defendants. We don't think that there'll be any dispute that the documents are relevant to the case, since they were, in fact, mentioned in the defendants' answer, alth ...   Read More

        We received yesterday an opposition (to our motion for production of documents) which argues that our motion should be denied because it was “nothing but a fishing expedition”. It says that we were just fishing beca ...   Read More

Question: You find yourself defending an essentially indefensible R.A 9262 case. What do you do? Answer: You attack the lawyer of the complainant! You file a case against her, preferably something criminal, like falsification. And who cares if it&rsqu ...   Read More

     I got such favorable results from using the modes of discovery in a civil case (it got settled almost immediately) that I resolved to use them more in future cases.      However, one case later made me realize that, unlike the judge in that ea ...   Read More

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