Practice question
In a case requiring a record on appeal, a party timely submits its proposed record but argues that submission alone perfects the appeal with respect to its subject matter even though approval has not occurred. What does Section 9 specify?
- Only the date of the first hearing matters.
- Perfection as to the party and that subject matter occurs upon approval of the timely filed record on appeal.
- No approval can ever matter.
- The party may privately deem the record approved.
- Every record-on-appeal case follows only the notice-filing rule.
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/rc_1-71_civil.html — Rule 41, Sections 2 and 9.
- https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2020/sep2020/gr_208865_2020.html — Land Bank v. Garcia, G.R. 208865, September 28, 2020, main opinion, Part I.
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