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Practice question: Technical Rules Not Binding

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Practice question

To finish quickly, an adjudicator allows the employer’s counsel to dictate which opposing submissions may be received and refuses the employee any meaningful response. The employer invokes technical relaxation. Which statutory limits have been disregarded?
  1. Adjudicator control, objective fact-finding and due process
  2. Only the need for a particular paper size
  3. A rule giving counsel unlimited decisional control
  4. A rule requiring the earliest party to win
  5. A rule abolishing every opportunity to answer

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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