The sections of Rule 132 of the 2019 Revised Rules on Evidence (A.M. No. 19-08-15-SC), each reproduced verbatim and verified against the Supreme Court's official text.
- Section 1. Examination to be done in open court
- Section 2. Proceedings to be recorded
- Section 3. Rights and obligations of a witness
- Section 4. Order in the examination of an individual witness
- Section 5. Direct examination
- Section 6. Cross
- Section 7. Re
- Section 8. Re
- Section 9. Recalling witness
- Section 10. Leading and misleading questions
- Section 11. Impeachment of adverse party s witness
- Section 12. Impeachment by evidence of conviction of crime
- Section 13. Party may not impeach his or her own witness
- Section 14. How witness impeached by evidence of inconsistent statements
- Section 15. Exclusion and separation of witnesses
- Section 16. When witness may refer to memorandum
- Section 17. When part of transaction, writing or record given in evidence, the remainder admissible
- Section 18. Right to inspect writing shown to witness
- Section 19. Classes of documents
- Section 20. Proof of private document[s]
- Section 21. When evidence of authenticity of private document not necessary
- Section 22. How genuineness of handwriting proved
- Section 23. Public documents as evidence
- Section 24. Proof of official record
- Section 25. What attestation of copy must state
- Section 26. Irremovability of public record
- Section 27. Public record of a private document
- Section 28. Proof of lack of record
- Section 29. How judicial record impeached
- Section 30. Proof of notarial documents
- Section 31. Alteration in document, how to explain
- Section 32. Seal
- Section 33. Documentary evidence in an unofficial language
- Section 34. Offer of evidence
- Section 36. Objection
- Section 37. When repetition of objection unnecessary
- Section 38. Ruling
- Section 39. Striking out [Q/] answer
- Section 40. Tender of excluded evidence
Note. Verbatim rule text with general framing, not legal advice.