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2004-09-09 |
PANGANIBAN, J. |
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| Petitioner was not deprived of its day in court. Actually, it never even complained against the manner in which its counsel had handled the case,[53] until late in the day. It must therefore "bear the consequences"[54] of its faulty choice of counsel whom it hired itself and whom it had "full authority to fire at any time and replace with another."[55] Moreover, in all the pertinent cases cited by petitioner, the denial of due process was attributable to the gross negligence of retained counsels, who had either been single practitioners or law firms; none had referred to counsels who, like Atty. Manalo, were employees of the aggrieved party. | |||||