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Practice question: Pre-trial Order

Multiple Choice Medium

Practice question

A party wishes to ignore a valid pre-trial order merely because a different strategy is now preferred. Is unilateral disregard authorized?
  1. Yes, every party may secretly rewrite it
  2. Yes, counsel preference automatically establishes manifest injustice
  3. No court may ever modify it
  4. The whole case automatically disappears
  5. No; appropriate judicial modification must be sought and justified

Legal references

  • Rule118 Section4: https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/rc_110-127_crim.html

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