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2013-07-01 |
REYES, J. |
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| Being a final judgment, the dispositions and conclusions therein have become immutable and unalterable not only as against the parties but even the courts. This is known as the doctrine of immutability of judgments which espouses that a judgment that has acquired finality becomes immutable and unalterable, and may no longer be modified in any respect even if the modification is meant to correct erroneous conclusions of fact or law and whether it will be made by the court that rendered it or by the highest court of the land.[27] The significance of this rule was emphasized in Apo Fruits Corporation v. Court of Appeals,[28] to wit: The reason for the rule is that if, on the application of one party, the court could change its judgment to the prejudice of the other, it could thereafter, on application of the latter, again change the judgment and continue this practice indefinitely. The equity of a particular case must yield to the overmastering need of certainty and unalterability of judicial pronouncements. | |||||
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2013-04-11 |
MENDOZA, J. |
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| At any rate, granting that technical rules are strictly applied in administrative matters, the Court can exercise its power and prerogative to suspend its own rules and to exempt a case from their operation if and when justice requires it. "The power to suspend or even disregard rules of procedure can be so pervasive and compelling as to alter even that which this Court itself had already declared final."[46] | |||||