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Heritage Park Management Corp. Vs. Construction Industry-Arbitration Commission, et al.

HERITAGE PARK MANAGEMENT CORPORATION,Petitioner, versus CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY ARBITRATION COMMISSION and ELPIDIO UY, doing business under name and style of EDISON DEVELOPMENT AND CONSTRUCTION,Respondents.

G.R. No. 148133 | 2008-10-08

D E C I S I O N


VELASCO, JR., J.:

In the disposition of judicial controversies, reasonable and justifiable liberality in the application of the rules on pleading and practice should be the guiding norm. But in those times when the Court allowed the relaxation or even suspended the application of procedural rules, even pro hac vice, it did so only for the most persuasive of reasons. The imperatives of a speedy and orderly administration of justice also require adherence to procedural laws, particularly those fixing periods within which certain acts must be done. Else, through negligence or indolence, not to mention malice, suits may be...