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PHILWORTH ASIAS, INC., SPOUSES LUISITO AND ELIZABETH MACTAL, AND SPOUSES LUIS AND ELOISA REYES, PETITIONERS, vs. PHILIPPINE COMMERCIAL INTERNATIONAL BANK, RESPONDENT.

PHILWORTH ASIAS, INC., SPOUSES LUISITO AND ELIZABETH MACTAL, AND SPOUSES LUIS AND ELOISA REYES, PETITIONERS, vs. PHILIPPINE COMMERCIAL INTERNATIONAL BANK, RESPONDENT.

G.R. No. 161878 | 2013-06-05

FIRST DIVISION

D E C I S I O N

BERSAMIN, J.:

Parties and their counsel are enjoined to avoid undue and excessive delay in presenting their own evidence. Their failure to obey this injunction surely contributes to the clogging of court dockets and expands the burdens of the entire Judiciary. It may justify a trial court into declaring them to have waived the right to present their evidence. The permissiveness and tolerant attitude of the trial judge should not give them the license to cause undue and excessive delay.

The Case

On final appeal by defendants is the decision in this collection suit promulgated on October 14, 2002,[1] whereby the...