4/14/2021 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly published in a newspaper of general circulation once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks. Copies of the Petition were also served on the Office of the Solicitor General, Local Civil Registrar of Quezon City, the Quezon City Prosecutor's Office, and the National Statistics Office.[35] During the initial hearing on September 23, 2011, Jon Nicholas presented documentary evidence to prove compliance with jurisdictional facts. In particular, he established the publication of the May 30, 2011 Order in Newsline Newspaper, a newspaper of general circulation, in its June 30 to July 6, 2011, July 7 to July 13, 2011, and July 14 to July 20, 2011 issues.[36] Copies of the Amended Petition were likewise served to the Quezon City Prosecutor's Office, the National Statistics Office, the Office of the Solicitor General, and the Local Civil Registrar of Quezon City.[37] Finding that Jon Nicholas complied with the jurisdictional requirements under Rule 108 of the Rules of Court and after his presentation of evidence, the Quezon City trial court granted his Petition. It first discussed Rule 108 and said that it "provides the procedure for cancellation or correction of entries in the civil registry."[38] The proceedings may be either summary or adversarial, depending on whether the entry sought to be corrected or changed is clerical or substantial.[39] Considering that the entry Jon Nicholas sought to correct was his parents' nationality—not a mere clerical error but a change in a substantial entry—the appropriate proceeding to change the entry should be adversarial as what had been done with Jon Nicholas' Petition.[40] On the merits, the Quezon City trial court held that Jon Nicholas established that his parents' nationality as entered in his Certificate of Live Birth is no longer true considering that they had already been naturalized. Consequently, the entry relating to his parents' nationality should be changed from "Chinese" to "Filipino."[41] The dispositive portion of the March 13, 2013 Decision[42] read: Accordingly, judgment is hereby rendered GRANTING the petition and ordering the Civil Registrar of Quezon City, upon finality of this Order to reflect in petitioner's (Jon Nicholas Chia Lao) Certificate of Live Birth, the change of his parent's citizenship from "Chinese" to "Filipino", to form pm1of the civil register in the Office of the Quezon City Local Civil Registrar, and to record this decision in the Civil Registry in accordance with Registry Regulations. Send Copies of this Order to the Solicitor General, the Quezon City Local Civil Registrar, Quezon City Prosecutor's Office and the National Statistics Office. SO ORDERED.[43] The Republic of the Philippines, through the Special Committee on Naturalization, directly filed before this Court Petitions[44] for Review on Certiorari to assail the Manila and Quezon City trial court Decisions. The Petition for Review on Certiorari against Winston Brian and Christopher Troy was filed on March 4, 2013 and was docketed as https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/66236 4/20