Practice question
A party asks the Philippine court to retry every factual merits issue already decided by the competent foreign court solely because the case is styled as registry correction. No recognized ground to repel the judgment is established. What does Fujiki indicate?
- The label mandates a complete retrial
- Recognition review is limited; the correction caption does not authorize unrestricted merits relitigation
- The judge must ignore the foreign judgment
- The applicant may change the judgment privately
- Every foreign judgment is a Philippine statute
Legal references
- Fujiki v. Marinay, G.R. No.196049, June 26, 2013, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2013/jun2013/gr_196049_2013.html
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