What constitutes effective service of court process?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Balla et al v. Fitch Research Corporation et al, 2005 BCSC 1447 (CanLII):
There is no lack of authority on the question of what constitutes effective service of court process. The following statement of Lord Cranworth L.C. in Hope v. Hope (1854), 43 E.R. 534, is often cited: The object of all service is of course only to give notice to the party on whom it is made, so that he may be made aware of and may be able to resist that which is sought against him; and when that has been substantially done, so that the court may feel perfectly confident that service has reached him, everything has been done that is required.
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