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Practice question: Affirmative Defenses (Rule 8, Sec. 12)

Multiple Choice Easy

Practice question

Under Section12(d), the thirty-calendar-day resolution period runs from what event when its summary hearing is conducted?
  1. The defendant’s birth
  2. Termination of the summary hearing
  3. The first demand letter years earlier
  4. The lawyer’s hiring date
  5. The witness’s overseas departure

Legal references

  • 2019 Rules of Civil Procedure, AM19-10-20-SC, Rules6–9: https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/am_19-10-20-sc_2019.html

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