Practice question
An initiatory pleading’s authorized corporate affiant verifies its allegations as true based only on information and belief. The pleading requires verification. Which current Rule 7 standard applies?
- Information and belief is always the required formula
- The verification need not identify any basis for truth
- Only the company’s size matters
- The required verification must use personal knowledge or authentic documents and the prescribed attestations; the stated defective form is treated as an unsigned pleading
- A corporate party can never authorize an affiant
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/am_19-10-20-sc_2019.html — current Rule 7 sections 3–6, signature certification, verification, forum-shopping certification and required witness and evidence contents.
- https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/rc_1-71_civil.html — Rule 7 unchanged sections 1–2, caption and body, read with the 2019 amendments.
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