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    UNIVERSITY OF THE EAST Vs ROMEO A. JADER

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    Fer Grace AniñonAcabalcuid Cataylo
    The university is held liable for damages after misleading a student into believing he had satisfied graduation requirements when he had not. Specifically: - The student received an incomplete grade but was later told he failed a required course after attending his graduation ceremony and celebrating. - The university argued it did not represent he had completed all requirements but the court found educational institutions have a duty to promptly inform students of their academic status. - Failing to do so and allowing the student to believe he could take the bar exam amounted to negligence for which the university must indemnify the student.

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    The university is held liable for damages after misleading a student into believing he had satisfied graduation requirements when he had not. Specifically: - The student received an incomplete grade but was later told he failed a required course after attending his graduation ceremony and celebrating. - The university argued it did not represent he had completed all requirements but the court found educational institutions have a duty to promptly inform students of their academic status. - Failing to do so and allowing the student to believe he could take the bar exam amounted to negligence for which the university must indemnify the student.

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    The university is held liable for damages after misleading a student into believing he had satisfied graduation requirements when he had not. Specifically: - The student received an incomplete grade but was later told he failed a required course after attending his graduation ceremony and celebrating. - The university argued it did not represent he had completed all requirements but the court found educational institutions have a duty to promptly inform students of their academic status. - Failing to do so and allowing the student to believe he could take the bar exam amounted to negligence for which the university must indemnify the student.

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    FER GRACE CATAYLO NIAGA JD I

    UNIVERSITY OF THE EAST vs ROMEO A. JADER


    (G.R. No. 132344, February 17, 2000)

    FACTS:
    Respondent Romeo Jader sued petitioner UE for damages for the
    moral shock, mental anguish, serious anxiety, besmirched reputation,
    wounded feelings and sleepless nights he suffered when he was not able to
    take the 1988 bar examinations arising from the latter’s negligence.
    Jader alleged that he got an incomplete grade in Practice Court 1. He
    took the removals exam for said subject but he was belatedly informing that
    it was a 5. The graduation ceremony invitation included his name as one of
    the candidates but the invitation had a footnote that the list is tentative and
    still subject to the completion of requirements. Jader attended the ceremony,
    he marched with his parents, was given a symbolic diploma, took pictures,
    tendered a blow-out attended by neighbors, friends, and relatives, took a
    leave of absence without pay from work, and enrolled at a pre-bar review
    class.
    In its answer, petitioner denied liability arguing mainly that it never led
    Jader to believe that he completed the requirements for an LLB degree when
    his name was included in the tentative list of graduating students.
    ISSUE:
    Whether or not the university be held liable for damages for
    misleading a student into believing that the latter had satisfied all the
    requirements for graduation?
    RULING:
    Yes, it can be held liable. Articles 19 and 20 of the Civil Code states
    that every person must, in the exercise of his rights and in the performance
    of his duties, act with justice, give everyone his due, and observe honesty
    and good faith and every person who, contrary to law, willfully or
    negligently causes damage to another, shall indemnify the latter for the
    same.
    Educational institutions are duty-bound to inform the students of their
    academic status and not wait for the latter to inquire from the former.
    Petitioner ought to have known that time was of the essence in the
    performance of its obligation to inform respondent of his grade. It cannot
    feign ignorance that respondent will not prepare himself for the bar exams
    since that is precisely the immediate concern after graduation of an LL.B.
    graduate.
    Hence petitioner is liable for its failure to promptly inform respondent of the
    result of an examination and in misleading the latter into believing that he
    had satisfied all requirements for the course.

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