Vexatious Litigant in UK Law
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Section 42 of the Senior Courts Act 1981
... ... (a) instituted vexatious civil proceedings, whether in the High Court or any inferior court, and ... Court of Human Rights where challenges to the vexatious litigant provisions have been made ... 2.6 In Golder v United Kingdom , 4 ... ...
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Introduction
... ... 1.1 In the words of Lord Bingham of Cornhill, vexatious litigation bears the hallmark of having: 1 ... little or no basis in ... 1.6 A typical psychological profile of the typical vexatious litigant or the individual with a propensity to pursue litigation obsessively is ... ...
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Editorial
... ... There may be the rare problem of the vexatious litigant, but the vast majority of individuals are not likely to abuse ... ...
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Limited Civil Restraint Orders
... ... 1 CPR rule 52.10(6) ... 54 Vexatious Litigants and Civil Restraint Orders ... applications in the proceedings ... have the power to make a general civil restraint order where the litigant had not previously been subject to an extended civil restraint order ... ...
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Civil Restraint Orders in Other Courts and Tribunals
... ... 9.4 In the context of vexatious litigation the tribunal is just as, if not more, vulnerable to the ... to strike out a claim or response and award costs against any litigant who has brought a claim vexatiously, improperly or unreasonably ... ...
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Evidence in the Case
... ... prior leave of the courts on the grounds that he was " a vexatious litigant". Had this person, now embittered and soured, embarked on a ... ...
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LEGISLATION
... ... freedom of access to the courts is the problem of the vexatious litigant. However, section 42 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 ... ...
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REPORTS OF COMMITTEES
... ... IN PERSON AND UNREPRESENTED DEFENDANTS THE plight of the litigant in person is not the stuff of which riveting literature is ... of considerably greater sympathy than the simple vexatious litigant of legend, who nonethe- less figures quite ... ...
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THE RIGHT OF THE MENTAL PATIENT TO HIS PSYCHOSIS
... ... To the individual litigant it may amount to much the samg thing; to the doctor, the ... The vexatious litigant procedure exists for such people.s8 Under that procedure ... ...
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THE DUTY OF CARE IN NEGLIGENCE: RECENTLY EXPRESSED POLICY ELEMENTS—PART I
... ... successive actions on the same facts by one litigant-nemo bib veccan' pl:o eadem causa-or at least encouraging ... , until perhaps the client was declared a vexatious litigant.” 84 Lord Morris, although admitting to being ‘‘ ... ...
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