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Practice question: Grounds

Multiple Choice Medium

Practice question

A party relies on an accident that actually prevented appeal and proves the injustice and no-adequate-remedy thresholds. Must it additionally relabel the accident as fraud to fit Section2(c)?
  1. No; accident is expressly a separate listed basis
  2. Yes; only fraud is named
  3. Yes; all listed terms mean deliberate deception
  4. Yes; pure accident is never considered
  5. Yes; the rule has no appeal-prevention ground

Legal references

  • 2025 NLRC Rules of Procedure, official issued PDF: https://nlrc.dole.gov.ph/uploads/content/The%202025%20NLRC%20Rules%20of%20Procedure.pdf RuleXII Sections1–2 and14, printed pages41–42 and45, visually read.

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