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By Patrick Cormier
So says Nick Abrahams in his similarly titled post of last week:
Today in what appears to be a first in Australia and perhaps the world, Master Harper of the ACT Supreme Court ordered that a default judgement could be served on defendants by notification on Facebook.
I wonder how long before this happens in Canada? After all, Canada is the country in the world with the highest Facebook penetration, as a percentage of its population… 29% in July 2008! Too bad Facebook doesn’t send back read receipts to lawyers serving documents on Facebook.
Full post as published by Slaw.ca on December 17, 2008 (boomark / email).
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