The court properly exercised its discretion to vacate the stipulation, which was so-ordered by the Housing Court without allocuting respondent. Although stipulations of settlement are generally favored and will not lightly be set aside, a court may exercise its discretion to do so where there is a showing of "fraud, collusion, mistake, accident, or some other ground of the same nature," including a showing that a party "has inadvertently, unadvisably or improvidently entered...
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