7/21/2019 Conclusiveness of Judgment

1/1

CHRIS GARMENTS CORPORATION vs HON. PATRICIA A. STO. TOMAS (G.R. No. 167426, January 12, 2009)

On the other hand, the doctrine of conclusiveness of judgmentprovides that issuesactually and directly resolved in a former suit cannot again be raised in any future case between the same parties involving a different cause of action. Unde

r this doctrine, identity of causes of action is not required but merely identity of issues. Otherwise stated, conclusiveness of judgment bars the relitigationof particular facts or issues in another litigation between the same parties ona different claim or cause of action.