Practice question
A new procedural issuance expressly says it applies only to cases filed after its effective date. A litigant in an older pending case invokes the general principle favoring application of procedural rules to pending actions and ignores that express limitation. Which is best?
- A general principle always overrides specific transition text
- Every new rule necessarily reopens final cases
- The actual issuance’s express temporal limitation must be respected
- A party may privately change the effective date
- The rule must apply to every case filed since1964
Legal references
- AM19-10-20-SC, Rule144, illustrating express transition analysis; Constitution ArticleVIII Section5(5): https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/am_19-10-20-sc_2019.html
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