Description
The Strategic Plan for Judicial Innovations 2022-2027 (“SPJI”) has led the Supreme Court to promulgate on 04 March 2025 the Rules on the Transmission and Execution of Letters of Request for Taking of Evidence in Civil or Commercial Matters under the 1970 Hague Evidence Convention (A.M. No. 25-02-17-SC). This Rule was promulgated two months before the Philippines acceded to the 1970 Hague Evidence Convention on 06 May 2025, and four months before the Convention entered into force in the Philippines on 05 July 2025.
