Posted by Eugene Volokh:
Australian Court Provides Notice of Default Judgment Via Facebook:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_12_14-2008_12_20.shtml#1229361862
From [1]The Sydney Morning Herald:
Master Harper of the [Australian Capital Territory] Supreme Court
ordered that a default judgement could be served on defendants by
notification on Facebook [via the defendants' Facebook accounts].
A default judgement is given by the court where the defendant does
not appear in court to defend the case....
Usually [notification about the default judgment to the losing
party] is done by way of personal service or the mailing of the
judgement to the defendant's home. However, service can be
difficult where the defendant is not easily located.
Courts do allow service by way of email and in the recent Sonny
Bill Williams and NRL matter, the court made an order for
"substituted service" by allowing certain court documents to be
served on Sonny Bill by text message to his mobile phone....
References
1.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/web/australian-court-serves-documents-via-facebook/2008/12/12/1228585107578.html
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