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Practice question: Authentication of Private Writings

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Practice question

A bookkeeper has repeatedly seen a client write and has thereby learned the client’s handwriting. May that basis support testimony identifying the handwriting?
  1. Only a formally appointed handwriting expert may ever identify it
  2. No one may testify about handwriting
  3. Yes, and the identification conclusively decides the case
  4. Yes
  5. Only the client’s surname is relevant

Legal references

  • 2019 Rules on Evidence, Rule 132 Section 22: https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/am_19-08-15-sc_2019.html

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