Australian Supreme Court allows lawyers to post court notices on Facebook
17 December, 2008
Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court has ruled that lawyers can use Facebook to serve legally binding court documents by posting them on defendants' profile page of the social networking site.
Carmel Rita Corbo and Gordon Kingsley Maxwell Poyser had borrowed $150,000 from MKM Capital in 2007 and later failed to keep up the repayments on the loan. MKM then applied to the courts through its lawyers for a judgment. But the couple didn’t appear in court to defend their action.
After 11 failed attempts to find the couple at their home, the lawyers tried a change of tack. They convinced the court that the Facebook profiles, which showed the defendants' dates of birth, email addresses and friend lists, were those of the borrowers who had defaulted on the loan and thus was a sufficient method of communicating with them. [Source: Economic Times]
Wow, now that's using your noggin'. If they refuse to answer phone calls or open up the door, hit up their Facebook profs. They would, however, had to have been friends with the defendants to post anything on their page... did the lawyers add them to friends lists first or what?
- From a tv antenna & indoor antenna specialist
Virtual address is going to be true address in future
Post new comment