Case assignments - how you should study cases

1. Who are the parties

- Names

- Participation in the case - Plaintiff, defendant; petitioner, respondent, others

- Relationship - landlord-tenant, creditor-debtor, husband-wife, co-heirs, others

2. What is the case about

- Loan, sum of money, damages, others

3. What relief is being sought

- Legal separation, damages, annulment of the contract, guardian, others

4. Why is this relief being sought? What happened between or among the parties?

- How did the relationship or transaction begin?

- What plaintiff's right did the defendant violate?

- What is the source of that right? Law, contract, etc.

- What violation did the defendant commit? Non-payment, non-performance of an obligation to do, others

- For "in rem" proceedings, what status, right or particular fact is sought to be established?

5. How did the lower court rule and why? How did the appellate court rule and why?

- Legal basis: law, jurisprudence

6. What legal or factual question is now presented to the Supreme Court?

7. What is the ruling of the SC? State in 2 sentences or less.

8. What is the basis of the SC's ruling?

a. Legal basis - law, jurisprudence

b. Factual basis - evidence

9. Give the principle of the case in a maximum of 3 sentences.