Winning litigant hoping to receive commissions By Benjamin J. Pulta 06/14/2011

Winning litigant hoping to receive commissions

By Benjamin J. Pulta 06/14/2011

Parties to a case involving sales commissions are still smarting from a decision of the Supreme Court (SC) 10 years ago which saw the high tribunal reversing its own rulings on the same case rendered a year apart.

Litigant Nenita Anay who won her case before the Makati regional trial court (RTC), Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court which awarded her damages 11 years ago from her erstwhile business partner saw her fortunes reversed when the high court decided to reverse itself a year later.

Up to now, Anay who has gone sick and despondent over the fate of her case is yet to see a cent from the ruling of the tribunal which excluded one of the erstwhile partner in the business.

In its decision dated Sept. 20, 2001, the SC’s First Division through now retired Associate Justice Consuelo Ynares-Santiago cited its “inherent power..to reverse itself” and cleared businessman William Belo..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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