Practice question
An individual small-claims party has a valid cause for using a representative. The proposed representative is a lawyer holding the party’s SPA. Does the SPA alone make that lawyer a permissible representative at the hearing?
- No; the individual’s representative must not be a lawyer
- Yes, because an SPA always overrides procedural restrictions
- Yes, if the lawyer receives no fee
- Yes, if the claim is difficult
- Yes, if the opposing party also brings a lawyer
Legal references
- https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/assets/pdf/journals/Collation_and_Codification_of_SC_Issuance_DIGITAL.pdf — A.M. 08-8-7-SC, March 1, 2022, Rules on Expedited Procedures in the First Level Courts, Rule IV, Sections 17–18, printed pages 2035–2036.
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