Key legal question
Whether the debtor's right to be heard was violated because the creditor's submission of 29 November 2010 was not communicated before the lower-court decision.
Extracted holding
Yes. A party must be able to know and comment on every submission in time; the submission reached the debtor only after the decision, so the right to be heard was breached.
Extracted reasoning
The right to reply is part of the constitutional right to be heard and applies regardless of whether the submission contains new facts or arguments. Because the decision was rendered before the submission was sent and the defect could not be cured on appeal, the judgment had to be annulled and remitted.