Practice question
A lawyer uses the Supreme Court's 2025 platform rules to claim that a Rule 122 criminal appeal must follow exactly the covered-case filing regime simply because a Bar member files it. Which is correct?
- Lawyer status erases every excluded-case provision.
- All criminal appeals automatically become civil cases.
- The express Rule 122 exclusion remains; covered-filer status does not bring an excluded case into the regime.
- The parties can delete the exclusion by agreement.
- The rules exclude only nonlawyers, never cases.
Legal references
- https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/11/99969 — Rule I, Sections 1–2.
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