Practice question
A person who should be joined as a co-plaintiff refuses consent. What does Rule 3 section 10 permit?
- Discarding the person’s interest without explanation
- Making the unwilling person a defendant and stating the reason in the complaint
- Treating refusal as an automatic admission of liability
- Making the judge the co-plaintiff
- Proceeding as if compulsory joinder never applies
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/am_19-10-20-sc_2019.html — Rule 3, sections 2–3, 5, 7–11, 16 and 20, real parties, representatives, joinder and death of a party.
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