Practice question
Counsel quotes the CA’s prefinality twelve-percent/six-percent treatment in Baterna as the Supreme Court’s final operative method, ignoring its modification. What must be corrected?
- The main ruling set aside that treatment and directed the present-value framework with postfinality six-percent legal interest.
- Every quoted lower-court passage is necessarily the operative holding.
- The Supreme Court made no modification.
- The first quoted number always overrides the dispositive ruling.
- Counsel may freely add every quoted interest method cumulatively.
Legal references
- Spouses Baterna v. National Transmission Corp., G.R. No. 276920, January 21, 2026, main decision, operative present-value and postfinality-interest rulings: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2026/jan2026/gr_276920_2026.html
- RA 12289, Sections 3 and 7-8, amending RA 10752 coverage and its renumbered Sections 7-8 on possession and valuation: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/2/99855
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