Source ABC Online, Australia -
Facebook has been used for the first time to serve legal documents, in a case where the defendants failed to turn up to court and could not be found.
In an Australian first and potentially a world first, a Canberra court has used Facebook to serve legal documents.
The ACT Supreme Court ordered that a judgement be served to defendants via the social networking site, after they failed to turn up to court.
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