ARTEMIO V. PANGANIBAN Chief Justice Chairperson       CONSUELO YNARES-SANTIAGOMA. ALICIA AUSTRIA-MARTINEZcralaw cralawAssociate JusticeAssociate Justice           MINITA V. CHICO-NAZARIO Associate Justice           CERTIFICATION     Pursuant to Section 13, Article VIII of the Constitution, it is hereby certified that the conclusions in the above decision were reached in consultation before the case was assigned to the writer of the opinion of the Court's Division.         cralawcralawARTEMIO V. PANGANIBAN Chief Justice   Endnotes: [1] Penned by Associate Justice Conrado M. Vasquez, Jr., with Associate Justices Josefina Guevara-Salonga and Fernanda Lampas-Peralta, concurring; rollo, pp. 151-158.cralaw [2] Rollo, p. 100.cralaw [3] Id. at 109.cralaw [4] Id. at 213.cralaw [5] Id. at 152.cralaw [6] Id. at 31.cralaw [7] Id. at 32.cralaw [8] Id. at 215-218.cralaw