Short answer. Yes. Rule 108, Section 6 lets the court expediting the proceedings and grant a preliminary injunction to preserve the parties' rights while the correction case is pending, though today many clerical corrections can bypass court entirely through the administrative route Republic Act No. 9048 and Republic Act No. 10172 created.
What the law says
The court in which the proceeding is brought may make orders expediting the proceedings, and may also grant preliminary injunction for the preservation of the rights of the parties pending such proceedings.
Rule 108, Section 6 — Expediting proceedings. Read the full provision →
What this section actually gives the petitioner
Rule 108 governs judicial petitions to cancel or correct entries in the civil registry, and Section 6 hands the court two distinct tools once such a case is filed. First, the court may issue orders expediting the proceedings generally — moving hearings along faster than the ordinary docket pace would otherwise allow. Second, and separately, the court may grant a preliminary injunction to preserve the parties' rights while the case is still being litigated, which matters when an erroneous entry is actively causing harm, for instance blocking a passport application, a marriage, or an inheritance claim that depends on the correct entry.
Not every correction needs this rule anymore
A court order is no longer required for every correction of a civil registry entry. Republic Act No. 9048 and Republic Act No. 10172 opened an administrative route through the local civil registrar for purely clerical or typographical errors, a change of first name, and corrections to the day and month of birth or the sex entry where the error is clerical rather than substantial. That administrative track is faster and cheaper than a Rule 108 petition, and a petitioner whose error genuinely qualifies as clerical should generally pursue it first rather than filing in court.
When the judicial route under Rule 108 is still necessary
Substantial corrections — changes that affect civil status, filiation, citizenship, or legitimacy, rather than a simple typographical slip — still require the judicial proceeding this rule describes, precisely because those changes carry legal consequences the local civil registrar has no authority to adjudicate on its own. In that setting, Section 6's expediting and injunctive powers become genuinely useful: a petitioner facing a looming deadline, or an entry actively being relied on by a third party to the petitioner's detriment, can ask the court to move quickly and to freeze the status quo while the merits are decided.
What the rule does not do
Section 6 is a procedural tool, not a shortcut around the substantive requirements of a Rule 108 petition. It does not excuse the petitioner from giving the notice, publication, and opportunity to be heard the rule elsewhere requires of interested parties, including the civil registrar and, in petitions affecting civil status, the Solicitor General. Asking the court to expedite the case is not a substitute for building a properly supported petition; a judge asked to move quickly on a weak or incomplete filing has no more reason to grant relief than on any other case, and an injunction under this section still has to meet the ordinary standard for that kind of provisional relief.
Related provisions
- Rule 108, Section 6 — Expediting proceedings
- Rule 108, Section 5 — Opposition
- Rule 108, Section 7 — Order