Can the court summons be posted at the defendant's door?

The court summons can be posted on the defendant's door, but if it is not officially posted by the court, if it is posted privately and seen by others, it may be suspected of infringing the defendant's privacy.

Legal analysis

If it is summoned in private and seen by others, it will have an adverse impact on the defendant and infringe on the defendant's privacy. Privacy refers to a kind of personality right that natural persons enjoy the peace of private life and the privacy of private information is protected according to law, and is not illegally violated, known, collected, used and made public by others. Moreover, the subject of rights has the right to decide to what extent others can interfere in their private lives, whether their privacy is open to others, and the scope and extent of disclosure. Privacy is a basic right of personality. Privacy is a private matter. Personal information and other things in personal life are not known to others, and have nothing to do with public interests and group interests. Others are prohibited from interfering. Privacy is a kind of personality right that natural persons enjoy to control their personal information, private activities and private fields unrelated to public interests. The subject of privacy right should be a natural person, not including a legal person. The goal of privacy is to maintain human comfort and personal dignity. Privacy is a kind of personality right, which exists in the right holder's own personality, that is, the right based on the right holder's own personality interests. The most obvious feature of personality right lies in its non-property, and the secret of enterprise legal person is linked to the economic interests of enterprise legal person, which is a kind of property of enterprise The right subject has the right to use his privacy to engage in various activities according to his own will to meet his own needs. For example, writing an autobiography with personal life information, painting or photographing with your own image or body, etc. These activities cannot be illegally interfered, but the use of privacy must not violate the mandatory provisions of the law, and must not violate public order and good customs, that is, rights must not be abused. For example, using one's private parts to make obscene articles should be considered as illegal use of privacy, which constitutes an illegal act.

legal ground

People's Republic of China (PRC) Civil Code

Article 1032 Natural persons have the right to privacy. No organization or individual may infringe upon the privacy rights of others by spying, harassing, exposing or making public. Privacy is the private space, private activities and private information that natural people live in peace and don't want to be known by others.

Article 103 Unless otherwise provided by law or expressly agreed by the obligee, no organization or individual may commit the following acts: (1) Interfere with the private life and peace of life of others by means of telephone, short messages, instant messaging tools, e-mails, leaflets, etc. ; (2) Entering, taking photos or peeping into other people's private spaces such as houses and hotel rooms; (3) Shooting, peeping, eavesdropping or revealing other people's private activities; (4) Shooting or peeping at the private parts of others' bodies; (5) handling other people's private information; (6) Infringe upon the privacy of others in other ways.