Court order served over Twitter
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- AnnieMole
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It appears to be legal to serve orders over Twitter now.
An unknown Twitter user was anonymously posting to the site using the same name as a right-wing political blogger - Donal Blaney
The order says the Twitter user is breaching the copyright of Mr Blaney.
Rather than go through the potentially lengthy process of contacting Twitter headquarters in California, Blaney decided to serve the order through Twitter. UK law states that an injunction does not have to be served in person and can be delivered by several different means including fax or e-mail.
A recent case in Australia showed that you could deliver a court order through Facebook and this led Blaney (who is also a lawyer) to try this in the UK.
Wonder if that means you'd get cheaper legal fees if your solicitors did all their work for you through Twitter?
An unknown Twitter user was anonymously posting to the site using the same name as a right-wing political blogger - Donal Blaney
The order says the Twitter user is breaching the copyright of Mr Blaney.
Rather than go through the potentially lengthy process of contacting Twitter headquarters in California, Blaney decided to serve the order through Twitter. UK law states that an injunction does not have to be served in person and can be delivered by several different means including fax or e-mail.
A recent case in Australia showed that you could deliver a court order through Facebook and this led Blaney (who is also a lawyer) to try this in the UK.
Wonder if that means you'd get cheaper legal fees if your solicitors did all their work for you through Twitter?
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eva2
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Twitter is the only one bigger site where we can get people for social networking and get more & more informations.
- 2 years ago
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eva2
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sophosthegreat
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but Twitter is full of people assuming false identities, you surely can't serve all of them
- 2 years ago
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sophosthegreat
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Abnormal
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Amazing, bested dodge these sites in the future when avoiding the courts lol
- 2 years ago
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Abnormal
