The judicial officer’s role is then to serve a document on its recipient in the forms prescribed by law, where applicable with a certificate of service, so that the recipient can be made aware of this document.
The judicial officer’s involvement is made mandatory by law for judicial acts; it is optional, but recommended, for extra-judicial acts.
For reference, judicial acts are understood to mean acts performed throughout legal proceedings:
These include initiating acts of proceedings such as summons and writs of summons, acts served during litigation, and also, at the end of the proceedings, the service of the rendered decision.
The effects of service:
• service triggers certain deadlines (appeals, procedural acts, interest, notice periods),
• it provides certainty of date and content to the documents,
• it establishes the certainty of the recipient’s domicile.
