In a historic first for the criminal justic system, the UK High Court has flaunted it’s super trendy credentials by giving permission for an injunction to be served via social-networking site Twitter.

The unfortunate recipient is an anonymous tweeter posing as right-wing political loud mouth Donal Blaney.

The injunction – known as the Blaney’s Blarney Order – was due to be served at 1930 BST and will include a link to the text of the full court order accusing faux Blaney of breaching the copyright of the real one.

It’s not the first time social networking has been (mis)appropriated by the forces of law and order, last year an Australian couple who defaulted on their mortgage were served legally binding court documents via Facebook.

Please note this illustration was linked to from http://www.robcottingham.ca/cartoon/archive/for-legal-aid-press-1-to-invoke-your-right-to-remain-silent-press-5/ and was illustrated by Rob Cottingham.