Status update: You’re sued. Legal authorities today announced a High Court judge in England has approved the use of Facebook to serve legal claims. Lawyers in a commercial dispute were last week granted permission to serve a suit against a defendant via the popular social networking site. Justice Nigel Teare permitted the unconventional method of service during a pretrial hearing into a case that pits two investment managers against a brokerage firm they accuse of overcharging them. A former trader and an ex-broker, Fabio De Biase and Anjam Ahmad, are also alleged to have been in on the scam. Jenni Jenkins, who represents Ahmad, says lawyers in the case had been trying to track De Biase in order to serve him with legal documents. She says a copy of the suit was left at his last known address, but that it wasn’t clear whether he was still living there. The lawyers didn’t have his email address, so they applied for permission to send him the claim through Facebook. Check out the full story from The Associated Press here.
U.K. court OKs serving legal claims via Facebook
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