00:00Yes, Your Honor, please. I would like to thank the Good Counsel for their willingness to explore or to implement
00:09Rule 130, Section 7. At least we have aligned with what we are expected to do before this Honorable Court.
00:17In fact, Your Honor, earlier this morning, I was asked by one of her partners about the comparison. And I
00:26actually told her partner, Attorney Lazaro, attorney, we don't even need to compare the exhibits in order to expedite the
00:34proceedings.
00:35Because, first of all, the authenticity of the exhibits is something that the court will have to decide. And the
00:46court will only decide on that after the prosecution has already submitted their offer of evidence. And that will be
00:52subject to our comment.
00:53And there's no need for us to actually compare the exhibits just so we can arrive at a stipulation that
01:02this and that are the same. And also, Your Honor, with regard to the identification of the witness of the
01:11exhibits, that goes into the witness competence.
01:14Now, we did not stipulate here in open court that the witness is competent to identify the exhibits, Your Honor,
01:22kasi hindi naman ho namin kilala ho yung taga-coa.
01:25Pangalawa, we don't know the extent of her examination of the documents. Pangatlo, she just assumed the work of Mr.
01:35Wamil.
01:35So, mahirap naman po sabihin nun ang kliente namin, sige, okay na, payag na kami, she can identify the exhibits,
01:42she knows all of those, she has examined all of those.
01:44Precisely, that's the duty of the counsel to do in open court. Now, there's Rule 130, Section 7, and for
01:52those of you who are litigating before the CTA, you already know this rule,
01:56that a witness can testify based on a summary, and that would actually show that he's competent to testify on
02:06the exhibits by reason of the summary that she made.
02:08And that would attest that she has examined all of the documents that are contained in the summary.
02:15That's why, yun po yung sinagest ko sa counsel ng Kabila, sabi ko, we don't even, we will not even
02:20object, attorney, as to how many exhibits you will identify,
02:24or you will have a sample, kahit sampo per quarter, or kahit 100, or kahit wala.
02:29Diba? If you check Rule 130, Section 7, hindi naman ho nirequire na isa-isahin ho yun.
02:35At hindi ho nirequire, your honor, na kailangan ho namin mag-stipulate on the exhibits, on the authenticity, so that
02:42they can use Rule 130, Section 7.
02:45And if properly done po, your honor, I think they can identify or they can finish all one quarter in
02:52less than 10 minutes.
02:54I'm talking about that, no? I'm talking about that based on experience.
02:59So, your honor, we don't object to their implementation of Rule 130, Section 7, as to the manner, by how
03:08they will do it.
03:08We will also not object, but subject to cross-examination, your honor. Thank you.
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