What are the current rules of the California Court of Appeal regarding the finality of a final judgment?

Co. (1983) 142 Cal.App.3d 152, 158.) These rules clearly reflect the public policy favoring finality of judgments. " '[P]ublic policy and the interests of litigants alike require that there be an end to litigation.' [Citation.] The result urged by plaintiff . . . would call '. . . into question the finality of any judgment and thus is bound to cause infinitely more injustice in the long run than it can conceivably avert in this case.' [Citation.] The consistent application of the traditional principle that final judgments, even erroneous ones [citations], are a bar to further proceedings based on the same cause of action is necessary to the well-ordered functioning of the judicial process. It should not be impaired for the benefit of particular plaintiffs, regardless of the sympathy their plight might arouse in an individual case." (Slater v. Blackwood (1975) 15 Cal.3d 791, 797, italics added.)