{"id":4846,"date":"2009-03-17T18:50:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T18:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/03\/17\/facebook-lazy-lawyers-oh-crap\/"},"modified":"2009-03-17T18:50:44","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T18:50:44","slug":"facebook-lazy-lawyers-oh-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/17\/facebook-lazy-lawyers-oh-crap\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook + lazy lawyers = Oh Crap."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so there you are having a drink.  A drink with an unbrella.  Minding your own business.  And checking out your Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>And suddenly&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A High Court judge today approved the serving of court papers via Facebook, the popular social network website, in what is thought to be a New Zealand first.<\/p>\n<p>The High Court in Wellington was told that Axe Market Garden is trying to sue Craig Axe who is alleged to have taken $241,000 from the firm account.<\/p>\n<p>Counsel for the company Daniel Vincent said the plaintiff was effectively Axe&#8217;s father John and there were difficulties in serving papers on his son.<\/p>\n<p>[Plaintiff] asked Justice David Gendall if he would take the unusual step of approving a secondary service order on Axe via Facebook &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Justice Gendall did not bat an eyelid in the court room when approving the order after being assured that newspaper adverts could not be effectively targeted&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/world\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=2&#038;objectid=10561970\"><br \/>\n&#8230; continued &#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so there you are having a drink. A drink with an unbrella. Minding your own business. And checking out your Facebook page. And suddenly&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1ga","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}