Practice question
A litigant serves one set of party interrogatories and later wishes to send a second set to the same party. Which procedural safeguard applies?
- Treat the second set as unlimited merely because it is shorter.
- Rename it first set again and dispense with leave.
- Compel an answer by private threat without the applicable procedure.
- Obtain the leave required for the additional set.
- Assume the opponent’s first response abolishes the limit.
Legal references
- Rules of Court, Rules 25-29, interrogatories, admissions, production and physical examination; retained text read with current amendments: https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/rc_1-71_civil.html
- 2019 Amendments to Civil Procedure, Rules 23-34, particularly the current provisions cited in each explanation: https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/am_19-10-20-sc_2019.html
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