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Rolando Sofio, et al. Vs. Alberto I. Valenzuela, et al.

ROLANDO SOFIO and RUFIO SOFIO, Petitioners, versus ALBERTO I. VALENZUELA, GLORIA I. VALENZUELA, REMEDIOS I. VALENZUELA, and CESAR I. VALENZUELA, Respondents.

G.R. No. 157810 | 2012-02-15

FIRST DIVISION

DECISION
 
BERSAMIN, J.:
  
The Court will not override the finality and immutability of a judgment based only on the negligence of a party’s counsel in timely taking all the proper recourses from the judgment. To justify an override, the counsel’s negligence must not only be gross but must also be shown to have deprived the party the right to due process.
 
We deny this appeal via petition for review on certiorari to assail the resolution promulgated on February 13, 2003,[1] whereby the Court of Appeals (CA) rejected the petitioners’ motion to recall the entry of judgment.
  
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