Construction of Procedural Rules

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1. What objective guides liberal construction under Rule 1, Section 6?
2. Does liberal construction provide a general license to disregard every other provision of the Rules of Court?
3. What must support a plea for procedural liberality under Viva Shipping Lines?
4. A party deliberately omits adverse parties from an appeal and offers no factual reason for the omission. It invokes Rul…
5. A litigant argues that procedural rules have no legitimate purpose because courts should decide only substantive questi…
6. An appellant invokes equity to excuse procedural failures. The record shows repeated noncompliance by design and exclus…
7. A court faces a procedural lapse and a detailed request for relaxation supported by specific exceptional facts. The res…
8. Explain why Rule 1, Section 6's policy of liberal construction does not make the rest of the Rules of Court optional.
9. In Viva Shipping Lines, why did merely invoking substantial justice fail to justify overlooking exclusion of creditors …
10. A lawyer says liberal interpretation of an ambiguous rule and equitable suspension of an otherwise applicable procedura…
11. Under Rule1 Section3(a), are ordinary and special civil actions both governed by ordinary civil-action rules, subject t…
12. When reading Rule1 Section3(a), which qualification accompanies application of ordinary rules to special civil actions?