Practice question
During JDR, a party produces a pre-existing admissible contract while confidential settlement proposals are exchanged. At trial, the opponent seeks the proposals; the producing party claims the contract has also become permanently inadmissible merely because it was shown in JDR. Which is correct?
- Confidential settlement communications are protected, but otherwise admissible evidence does not become inadmissible solely from its use in JDR.
- Everything shown in JDR is permanently destroyed as evidence.
- Every settlement proposal is automatically admissible at trial.
- The judge may privately transmit all confidential proposals to another judge.
- The contract's appearance in JDR conclusively establishes authenticity and liability.
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/am_19-10-20-sc_2019.html — AM19-10-20-SC, current 2019 amendments, Rules18–22.
- https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/assets/pdf/journals/Collation_and_Codification_of_SC_Issuance_DIGITAL.pdf — Supreme Court primary compilation, pp1659–1673, AM19-10-20-SC 2020 CAM/JDR Guidelines effective March1 2021; Ch1§2, Ch2 PartsC–D.
- https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/11/98364 — AM24-02-06-SC, November5 2024, Rule on Family Mediation.
- https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2021/aug2021/gr_241699_2021.html — Uy Tuazon v Fuentes, GR241699, August4 2021, main resolution.
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