[LINK] facebook legal papers may not be legally delivered after all

[Jan Whitaker]

Interesting follow-up on the recent story about courts finding that 
legal papers 'served' to someone on their Facebook account was 
kosher. Well, maybe not. And the reason: doing so would be outside 
the T&Cs of Facebook itself.


Problems with courts ordering service by Facebook

January 23, 2009 - 5:15PM

In December last year this column broke the news that a court in 
Canberra had ordered that a 
<http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/12/12/1228585107578.html>default 
judgement could be served by Facebook.

However, the position may not be so straightforward - it may be that 
a Facebook user is not entitled to use the service to serve court documents.
[more]
http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/biztech/problems-with-courts-ordering-service-by-facebook/2009/01/23/1232471580303.html




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