Toronto process servers scandal

When you send your papers out for service, it's important that the company you hire be thoroughly familiar with the proper methods of process service.

In July 1960 an Ontario 'divorce mill inquiry' was launched after two bailiffs, R.J. Gray and Alan Fawcett, served papers in three actions, and used the photo of an innocent woman to identify the co-respondents. At that time, when process servers were sent to serve divorce papers, they were given a picture that was to be used as an identification aid. Court identification would subsequently be made by an affidavit swearing that the person in the photo and the person who received the summons were one and the same.

The three sets of papers were served using the same picture as a reference, alarm bells went off and both bailiffs were questioned by Inspector Herbert Purdy of the provincial police.

At Canadian Process Serving Inc we have the requisite experience to get your family court documents served properly.