Text of the provision
Sec. 2. Adjournments and postponements. — A court may adjourn a trial from day to day, and to any stated time, as the expeditious and convenient transaction of business may require, but shall have no power to adjourn a trial for a longer period than one [ ] month for each adjournment, nor more than three [ ] months in all, except when authorized in writing by the Court Administrator, Supreme Court. The party who caused the postponement is warned that the presentation of its evidence must still be terminated on the remaining dates previously agreed upon.
2019 Rules of Civil Procedure (A.M. No. 19-10-20-SC), Rule 30, Section 2. Reproduced verbatim and verified word-for-word against the Supreme Court's official text and the ChanRobles rendering.
About this section
This is Section 2 of Rule 30 (Trial) of the 2019 Rules of Civil Procedure, the rules promulgated by the Supreme Court in A.M. No. 19-10-20-SC and in force since May 1, 2020. The text above is reproduced verbatim from the current rules.
Related provisions
- Section 1 — Schedule of trial.
- Section 3 — Requisites of motion to postpone trial for illness of party or counsel.
Cases citing this section
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