Application for Civil Proceedings Order.
Held: ‘This defendant has become a compulsive litigant who has lost touch with reality. Her remorseless pursuit of litigation is wholly without merit, is clearly vexatious and has perpetrated a waste of scarce judicial resources needed for the determination of proper claims. Nothing in the documents put in by the defendant, including her affidavits, suggests otherwise. If anything they confirm it.’
Citations:
[2005] EWHC 1281 (Admin)
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Citing:
Cited – Attorney-General v Vernazza, In Re Vernazza CA 1959
The respondent to an application to prevent him issuing proceedings without the court’s consent, had brought actions claiming in one form or another that a consent judgment ought to be set aside and that he was still owed the sum claimed in the . .
Cited – Attorney General v Jones CA 1990
A section 42 order embraced applications to or in the Court of Appeal as well as below. A person against whom a vexatious litigant order was sought could not seek to argue anew the findings which had already been made against him by the courts in . .
Cited – Attorney-General v Barker CA 16-Feb-2000
An order that someone be denied access to the courts save with consent of a judge was a challenge to that individual’s constitutional rights, and should only be made if the statutory pre-conditions are fulfilled. It had to be shown that the litigant . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Litigation Practice
Updated: 20 December 2022; Ref: scu.228214
