{"title":"The old order changeth and giveth way to the new: WhatsApp debuts as a means of substituted service in Ghana","authors":"M. A. Mensa-Bonsu","doi":"10.1080/14729342.2015.1108121","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The free mobile phone messaging application WhatsApp has recently made a successful debut into Ghana's legal order. With the leave of the High Court, it was used to effect smooth and uneventful substituted service on an elusive defendant. This note draws attention to the immense potential that such technologies hold for improving procedural efficiency in Ghana and other Commonwealth countries which, like Ghana, have a formal justice system fraught with resource challenges. Given the increasing participation of the Ghanaian populace in the technological age, WhatsApp's adoption as a tool of the legal process is an extremely useful and welcome development; a harbinger of cheaper, faster, more widely accessible justice.","PeriodicalId":35148,"journal":{"name":"Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal","volume":"15 1","pages":"149 - 154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2015-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14729342.2015.1108121","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14729342.2015.1108121","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT The free mobile phone messaging application WhatsApp has recently made a successful debut into Ghana's legal order. With the leave of the High Court, it was used to effect smooth and uneventful substituted service on an elusive defendant. This note draws attention to the immense potential that such technologies hold for improving procedural efficiency in Ghana and other Commonwealth countries which, like Ghana, have a formal justice system fraught with resource challenges. Given the increasing participation of the Ghanaian populace in the technological age, WhatsApp's adoption as a tool of the legal process is an extremely useful and welcome development; a harbinger of cheaper, faster, more widely accessible justice.
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