SAMPLE: Verification and Certification Against Forum Shopping

 

VERIFICATION AND CERTIFICATION AGAINST FORUM SHOPPING

 

I/We,(Name/names)_______________________________, of legal age, Filipino / _____________   , and a resident of _______________________________________

after having been duly sworn under in accordance with law, hereby depose and state:                                                                                   

   

1.      That I am the complainant/ we are the complainants in the above-entitled case and have caused this Complaint to be prepared;

 

2.     That I/we read and understood its contents which are true and correct of my/our own personal knowledge and/or based on true records;

 

3.     That I/we have not commenced any action or proceeding involving the same issue or subject matter in the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals or any other tribunal or agency;

4.      That to the best of my/our knowledge, no such action or proceeding is pending in the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals or any other tribunal or agency, and that, if I/we should learn thereafter that a similar action or proceeding has been filed or is pending before these courts or tribunal or agency, I/we undertake to report that fact to the Court within five (5) days therefrom.

 

 

 

__________

Complainant

 

[ACKNOWLEDGMENT]