Practice question
A party objects that a document may not be considered solely because it lacks the courtroom presentation form ordinarily used in civil trials. The document is relevant and reliably established, and both sides may address it. What principle applies?
- The first party may prevent all documentary inquiry
- Every civil-trial formality is invariably controlling
- No relevant document can ever be considered
- Relaxation requires accepting every assertion as true
- Court evidence technicalities are not controlling; reasonable fair fact-finding is permitted
Legal references
- Labor Code, Article 227 (formerly 221), technical rules, reasonable fact-finding and control of proceedings: https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442_1974.html
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