A LAWYER served notice on an Australian couple that they had lost their home by using the social networking website Facebook.
The Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court approved lawyer Mark McCormack’s application to use Facebook to serve legal documents to tell the Canberra couple that they had lost their house after defaulting on a loan.
But Mr McCormack, who represents a mortgage lender, said he did not expect the site would become the method of choice for lawyers wanting to serve court documents. He said courts had to be satisfied that the documents cannot be served personally.
McCormack said that by the time he got the documents approved by the court, Facebook profiles for the couple had disappeared.