Practice question
In Encinas’s explanation, what characterizes a judgment on the merits for preclusion analysis?
- Only that it uses many pages
- Determination of the parties’ rights and liabilities on the disclosed facts, rather than a merely preliminary or technical point
- Only that an investigator has collected a witness’s address
- Only that a press release calls the matter closed
- Only that a complaint is placed in a folder
Legal references
- Encinas v. Agustin, G.R. No. 187317, April 11, 2013, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2013/apr2013/gr_187317_2013.html
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