Practice question
An employer relies on a foreign termination rule but submits no competent proof of its content. Assuming the ordinary presumed-identity approach applies, what follows?
- The unproved rule is presumed the same as Philippine law
- The employer’s description is automatically accepted
- The employee must invent the foreign statute
- The case must always be dismissed
- The foreign country is deemed not to exist
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2024/feb2024/gr_256540_2024.html — Bison Management Corporation v. AAA, G.R. No. 256540, February 14, 2024
- https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/pdf/am_19-08-15-sc_2019.pdf — 2019 Amendments to the Revised Rules on Evidence, Rule 132 sections 24–25
- https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/1/69859 — Anido v. Republic, G.R. No. 253527, October 21, 2024
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