Practice question
An authorized joint committee conducts preliminary investigation under applicable published rules. A respondent claims concurrent prosecutorial authority allows the committee to invent secret binding procedures without publication. Which is best?
- Institutional authority does not itself dispense with applicable rule-publication and procedural requirements
- Concurrent authority makes publication universally irrelevant
- All rules are automatically effective before issuance
- A joint body can privately amend criminal procedure
- The complainant alone selects every binding rule
Legal references
- Arroyo v. DOJ, G.R. Nos. 199082, 199085 and 199118, July 23, 2013, main resolution: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2013/jul2013/gr_199082_2013.html; main resolution’s institutional description and quoted operative disposition.
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