When a court serves a party by public notice, who must carry that out, and what must be done with the papers themselves?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
In the practice file we read the court officer's note recording that the documents were held, any copy or photograph of the bulletin board posting showing the reason and the date, and any record of an alternative method used under a Supreme Court rule.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading takes the provision as a duty laid on the court officer or equivalent: for service by public notice, that officer must keep the documents to be served in hand and post the reason for it on the court's bulletin board, or instead use another method a Supreme Court rule prescribes.
Another reading notes that the provision governs only how public notice service is carried out, not which case qualifies for it or what form the alternative methods take, so the file must show which Supreme Court rule applied and that its steps were actually followed.
Your judgment
If the posting date cannot be shown from the file, how could a party establish when public notice service took effect?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We look at this again if the provision is amended to change who performs public notice service or what must be posted, or if a Supreme Court rule sets a new method such as electronic posting.