Honestly, at this point, you have to wonder if some people are suffering from brainrot or if they are genuinely confused by applying what Atty. Ligutan said to absolutely everything in life.
When the Supreme Court ruled in People v. Lastimosa (2025) under Rule 130, Section 4 that a photocopy is admissible to the same extent as an original, they were talking about admissibility of evidence in a court of law.
This means a judge can accept a faithful duplicate to prove what a document says.
It does not mean a xerox copy of a 1,000-peso bill is now legal tender, or that a photocopied passport will pass airport immigration!
This is the DDS trying to insult a brilliant lawyer to save face because their legal team got absolutely demolished in open court in front of millions of Filipinos.
The law dragged us into the 21st century to streamline trials; it didn't give everyone a license to forge IDs.
Please try to understand the context and stop the literal, brain-dead interpretations!
Budlay gid intiendihon haw? Or namian lang gid kamo ya mag minango?