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Practice question: Power to Promulgate Rules

Multiple Choice Medium Jurisprudence

Practice question

A procedural proposal is defended solely as producing delay and needless expense, with no legal benefit claimed. Which express design requirement of Section 5(5) is directly implicated?
  1. Court procedures must always maximize cost.
  2. Every case must last at least twenty years.
  3. Rules should provide simplified and inexpensive procedure for speedy disposition of cases.
  4. Only wealthy litigants may use procedure.
  5. Procedure must never resolve a case.

Legal references

  • 1987 Constitution: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353 Article VIII, Section 5(5).

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