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- Verification and certification of non-forum shopping is not
jurisdictional but merely a formal requirement which the Court may
direct a party to comply with or to correct.
- CA overstepped its boundaries when, in disposing the respondents’
petition for certiorari (under rule 65), it passed on factual issues.
o CA virtually resolved petitioner’s case for reconveyance on
its substantive merits even before evidence on the matter
could be adduced.
- Admission of amended complaint is proper; in fact, it is a matter of
right under Rule 10 sec.2.
o Rule 10, sec. 2: Amendment as a matter of right.—A party
may amend his pleading once as a matter of right at any time
before a responsive pleading is served or in the case of a
reply, at any time within 10 days after it is served.