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2012-11-12 |
DEL CASTILLO, J. |
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| It must be pointed out that petitioners had a choice of whether to continue the services of their original lawyer or consent to let him go. x x x [T]hey delayed in engaging their replacement lawyer. Their poor choices and lack of sufficient diligence x x x are the main culprits for the situation they now find themselves in. It would not be fair to pass on the bad consequences of their choices to respondents. Petitioners' low regard for the rules or nonchalance toward procedural requirements x x x has in fact contributed much to the delay, and hence frustration of justice, in the present case.[70] | |||||