Facebook User Gets Served Legal Docs…On Facebook.

Here’s a first for Facebook–the online social network has been used to serve legal documents. According to ABC, a case where the defendants failed to turn up in an Australian court and could not be found otherwise resulted in legal documents being served on Facebook. After the ACT Supreme Court ruled that a judgment be served to defendants on Facebook, a Canberra court was forced to do so. What boggles my mind is how this is considered a fully valid form of document serving anywhere in the world.
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