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In a civil action for damages arising from a malfunctioning software implementation, Plaintiff P sues Defendant V, a software vendor, for ₱2,000,000. The project manager of V, using V’s letterhead, writes a memo dated June 12, 2025: “We acknowledge the defect in the software delivered on June 5, 2025 and promise to remediate at our own cost by August 1, 2025.” The memo is kept in V’s project file under Quality Assurance. Plaintiff offers the memo as (1) a party-opponent admission, and (2) a business record kept in the ordinary course of business. Defendant objects on hearsay and argues it cannot be admitted for multiple purposes. (a) Identify the doctrine of multiple admissibility and explain its reach in Philippine evidence law. (b) For each proposed use, specify the governing ground(s) and the essential conditions for admissibility. (c) Applying the doctrine to these facts, should the court admit the memo for both proposed uses? If admitted, what limiting instructions or cautions, if any, should accompany its use?

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Even if admissible as a party-admission and as a business record, the court should require the custodian to testify and may consider the document only for the truth of the matters stated, with no further inferences. The doctrine of multiple admissibility does not apply here; the memo can be admitted for either party-admission or as a business record, but not both at once, as dual admissibility is not permitted in Philippine law. The doctrine of multiple admissibility applies; the memo is admissible for both proposed uses (party-admission and business-record). If admitted for both, the court should provide limiting instructions that the document may be considered only for those two purposes and not for any other purpose. The memo can be treated as a party-admission, but it cannot be admitted as a business record since it was created by a vendor’s project manager, not by a person within the ordinary course of business; therefore, admit only as party-admission with a limiting instruction.

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