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2008-03-26 |
TINGA, J, |
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| On many occasions,[17] the Court has strictly construed the requirements of the proper service of papers and judgments. Both in Heirs of Delos Santos v. Del Rosario[18] and Tuazon v. Molina,[19] the service of the trial court's decision at an adjacent office and the receipt thereof by a person not authorized by the counsel of record was held ineffective. Likewise, the service of the decision made at the ground floor instead of at the 9th floor of a building in the address on record of petitioners' counsel, was held invalid in PLDT v. NLRC.[20] In these cases, there was no constructive service of the decision even if the service was made at the offices adjacent to the address on record of the parties' counsels and even if the copies eventually found their way to persons duly authorized to receive them. | |||||