2026 Bar Chair Cases

DOCTRINE Proof of service of the assailed judgment must be clearly established to properly determine the reckoning period for filing an appeal. To this end, the registry return receipt alone will not suffice to prove service through registered mail. In the same vein, the disputable presumptions that the postal officers regularly performed their duties or that letters duly directed and mailed were received in the regular course of mail, do not apply in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. FACTS This resolves the Petition for Review on Certiorari[1]...