Yes, it’s stranger than fiction, but an Australian couple has been served with repossession papers on their home via social networking site Facebook. A lawyer in Canberra persuaded the judge to let him make the possibly unique move after other avenues of serving the papers had been exhausted.
After trying to serve papers in person at the house and by e-mail, and with the couple not turning up for a court appearance, the lawyer, Mark McCormack, found a Facebook page for the woman in the couple. With the other details she’d posted, including the fact that her partner was listed as one of her friends, he was able to argue in the Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court that he’d found the right person.
