Practice question
A party invokes a specified foreign governing law but fails to prove its content as required. Assume the processual-presumption doctrine applies. What does IPAMS describe?
- Automatic dismissal of every claim
- Automatic acceptance of the party's unsupported version
- Automatic application of every foreign employer's handbook
- A universal exemption from Philippine law
- Presuming the unproved foreign law to be the same as Philippine law
Legal references
- IPAMS v. De Vera, G.R.205703, March7 2016, main decision, contractual choice of law and lex loci contractus; https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/1/61749
- Civil Code Articles17 and1306; https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html
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