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媒體英語會帶大家一起學習BBC撰稿人在報道世界大事時常用到的單詞和短語。
Background: 一名澳大利亞律師通過社交網站 Facebook 將法律文件送達一對被告人手中。此舉被認為世界首創。這對夫婦因拖欠大筆債務而受到起訴，辦案律師獲得澳大利亞法庭批準，采用熱門社交網，把起訴文件傳遞被告人。
Questions:請在聽下面錄音的時候試著回答這些問題。這是一個用來幫助你提高聽力技能的練習。
1. What other unusual ways have Australian courts served papers?
2. Why were the courts notifying the couple?
3. True or False? The couple arrived at the courthouse.
4. True or False? Now everyone who visits the couple's Facebook page can see the court's papers.
Internet Legal Papers 互聯網法律文件
In the past, the Australian courts 法庭 have granted permission for people to be served 送達 with legally binding papers 法律文件 via email or even text message but this is the first time they've allowed the use of the social networking site 社交網絡, Facebook.
Lawyers 律師 wanted to notify a couple that they'd lost their house after defaulting 拖欠 on a loan 貸款債務 but failed to reach them at their home address or through email.
When the couple failed to turn up 出席 for a court appearance the lawyer, Mark McCormack, decided to use what he's described as a "somewhat novel 新穎的 approach" and served the papers via the woman's Facebook page, where the man was listed as her friend.
In granting permission to use the social networking site the judge made a key stipulation 關鍵性約定: that the papers be sent via a private email so that other people visiting the page could not read their contents.
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Answers
1. What other unusual ways have Australian courts served papers?
They have served papers via email or even text message.
2. Why were the courts notifying the couple?
Because they had not repaid a loan on their home.
3. True or False? The couple arrived at the courthouse.
False, they didn't turn up.
4. True or False? Now everyone who visits the couple's Facebook page can see the court's papers.
False, the court documents are not visible to everyone.
