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Practice question: Applicability of Procedural Laws to Pending Actions

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Practice question

Does applying a procedural amendment to further proceedings necessarily mean every completed prior step must be repeated?
  1. Yes, every hearing automatically vanishes
  2. Yes, regardless of the text
  3. Yes, even a final judgment must always reopen
  4. No; the rule’s scope and transition terms must be examined rather than assuming wholesale undoing
  5. Yes, if either lawyer asks

Legal references

  • AM19-10-20-SC, Rule144: https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/am_19-10-20-sc_2019.html

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