Practice question
An aggrieved party timely seeks reconsideration of a voluntary-arbitration award and receives its denial. It then files the proper Rule43 petition within fifteen days of that notice, satisfying the other requirements. The opponent relies solely on an older ten-day appellate passage quoted in Guagua and says the fifteen-day petition must be rejected. Which is best?
- The argument overlooks Guagua’s operative harmonization distinguishing the ten-day reconsideration step from the fifteen-day Rule43 petition period after resolution
- Every quotation in an opinion overrides its actual holding
- Reconsideration is always prohibited under current rules
- The Court of Appeals has no voluntary-arbitration review power
- A second motion is mandatory before every appeal
Legal references
- Guagua National Colleges v.CA, GR188492, August28,2018; DO255 RuleVI: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2018/aug2018/gr_188492_2018.html
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