Judicial Decisions

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1. Under Civil Code Article 8, what forms part of the Philippine legal system?
2. Does Article 8 mean courts exercise legislative power in every respect whenever they decide a case?
3. Under Article VIII section 4(3), how may a doctrine laid down by the Supreme Court en banc or in Division be modified o…
4. A trial judge rejects a controlling Supreme Court interpretation of a statute solely because the judge prefers a differ…
5. An agency claims that a Supreme Court decision interpreting its enabling statute can be ignored because only enactments…
6. A litigant asks a Supreme Court Division to reverse a doctrine laid down in an earlier Division decision, arguing that …
7. A lawyer reads a Supreme Court decision construing a benefit statute and proposes that a lower court add an entitlement…
8. Explain the role given to judicial decisions by Civil Code Article 8 without equating adjudication with legislation in …
9. May a lower court disregard controlling Supreme Court statutory interpretation solely because it considers another poli…
10. State the constitutional requirement for modifying or reversing a Supreme Court doctrine laid down en banc or in Divisi…
11. In Jabinal, what legal concern supported protecting conduct undertaken under the earlier Supreme Court interpretation?
12. Did Jabinal treat abandonment of the older doctrine as necessarily retroactive against the accused who relied on it?