vexatious litigant

He was only the 13th person to be declared a vexatious litigant in Victoria since 1930, and the first prisoner.

This provision may be used to prevent a vexatious litigant from making repeated applications for contact which have little chance of success.

Subsequently, at least two other South Australians have been found to be vexatious litigants.

Administrative tribunals in Quebec cannot declare a person a vexatious litigant.

The plaintiff was effectively declared a vexatious litigant.

Some jurisdictions have a list of vexatious litigants: people who have repeatedly abused the legal system.

A vexatious litigant seeks to harass or subdue an adversary.

The High Court has power to prohibit vexatious litigants from bringing or continuing legal proceedings without its permission.

A vexatious litigant must then apply to a High Court Judge for leave to commence any action.

HM Courts Service maintains a list of vexatious litigants.

After the act was passed he became the first person to be declared a habitually vexatious litigant and barred from future litigation without judicial permission.

Over the years, Martin has filed numerous lawsuits, and has been labeled as a vexatious litigant by several jurisdictions.

Only three people have ever been declared vexatious litigants in the High Court of Australia, the first in 1976.

Rulings such as this have classified the Church of Scientology as a chronically vexatious litigant.

Goldsmith Collins - Footballer and vexatious litigant.

Dorothy Squires, singer and former wife of Roger Moore, who was declared a vexatious litigant in 1987.

On 19 October 2004, Knight was barred from launching any further legal action in Victoria's courts for 10 years with a judge declaring him a vexatious litigant.

In New Zealand a person may be declared a vexatious litigant by a High Court Judge on the application of the Attorney-General.

Isaac Wunder, who gave his name to the Isaac Wunder order which may be issued in Ireland to vexatious litigants.

One suggested reason is to protect public bodies from vexatious litigants with no real interest in the outcome of the case but just a desire to make things difficult for the government.

Because lawyers could be disbarred for participating in the abuse, vexatious litigants are often unable to retain legal counsel, and such litigants therefore represent themselves in court.

'It Goes Back to Chaucer' Brian Hitchen, the managing editor of The Daily Star, called him a "vexatious litigant."

In Queensland, the process for having someone declared a vexatious litigant is governed by the Vexatious Proceedings Act 2005, which supplanted an earlier Act.

As a result, Justice Fryberg declared Mathews a vexatious litigant and made an order prohibiting him from commencing any new proceedings against BCC.

In New South Wales, seventeen people are on the New South Wales Supreme Court's vexatious litigants register.