Abuse of Process in UK Law
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Johnson v Gore Wood & Company (A Firm)
... ... a decision of the Court of Appeal dismissing the action as an abuse of the process of the court. The other is Gore Wood & Co., a firm of ... ...
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R v Horseferry Road Magistrates Court ex parte Bennett (A.P.)
... ... not to request the return of the appellant through the extradition process. The affidavit of Detective Sergeant Martin Davies of the Metropolitan ... upon the inherent power of the court to protect itself against the abuse of its own process. If the matters which are being relied upon have ... ...
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Bradford and Bingley Building Society v Seddon Hancock and Others, Third Parties
... ... as a Judge of the High Court in Manchester, striking out as an abuse of process his third party proceedings against the three Third Parties, as ... ...
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Crawford Adjusters (Cayman) Ltd v Sagicor General Insurance (Cayman) Ltd
... ... the Board to consider the scope of the closely related torts of abuse of process and malicious prosecution ... 2 ... ...
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Barratt v Ansell (t/a as Woolf Seddon); Arthur JS Hall & Company v Simons
... ... (now Lord Bingham of Cornhill) It is, however, prima facie an abuse to initiate a collateral civil challenge to a criminal conviction ... to a criminal conviction will be struck out as an abuse of process. On the other hand, if the convicted person has succeeded in having his ... ...
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Grovit and Others v Doctor and Others
... ... to a peremptory order of the court or conduct amounting to an abuse of the process of the court; or (2)(a) that there has been inordinate and ... ...
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R v Maxwell
... ... , the trial judge might well have stayed the prosecution as an abuse of process. Alternatively, the judge might have applied section 78 of the ... ...
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McPhilemy v Times Newspapers Ltd and Others
... ... contrary, we concluded that an appeal on this basis would involve an abuse of process and bring the administration of justice into disrepute. This ... ...
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Three Rivers District Council v Governor and Company of the Bank of England (No. 3)
... ... ; and revealed the unifying element of conduct amounting to an abuse of power accompanied by subjective bad faith. In the most important modern ... implementation is not restricted to a once-for-all legislative process, but also requires a continuing administrative process. Auld L.J., who was ... ...
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R v Looseley
... ... 1 Every court has an inherent power and duty to prevent abuse of its process. This is a fundamental principle of the rule of law. By ... ...
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