Liberal Construction of the Rules on Evidence

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1. Under Marily, is the CTA’s authority to consider related new issues described as unbridled?
2. A party explains that a flood prevented timely retrieval of records, but the retrieved document does not support the al…
3. A tribunal refuses even to consider a documented reason for delay because procedural relaxation is categorically imposs…
4. The CTA introduces an unraised issue requiring factual proof not in the record, then decides it against a party because…
5. A tribunal applies flexibility only to one side, allowing decisive surprise material while barring the other from a mea…
6. A party adequately explains delayed submission but supplies a document unrelated to its allegation. Discuss the two Aga…
7. A labor tribunal reads Agapito as a ban on all first-time appellate evidence. Explain the error.
8. Explain why a court cannot invoke Marily as unlimited power to decide an unraised issue using nonexistent facts.