• Specific Year
    Any

MAGISTRATES COURT (CIVIL DIVISION) ACT 1992 - SECT 13A Vexatious litigants

MAGISTRATES COURT (CIVIL DIVISION) ACT 1992 - SECT 13A

Vexatious litigants

(1)  Where a person is declared to be a vexatious litigant under an order in force under section 194G of the Supreme Court Civil Procedure Act 1932 , that person may not, without the leave of the Chief Magistrate or the Deputy Chief Magistrate, institute any proceedings in the Court.
(2)  If proceedings are pending in the Court when an order is made as mentioned in subsection (1) , those proceedings are taken to be stayed unless leave is given as mentioned in that subsection.
(3)  Where proceedings pending in the Court are taken to be stayed and the person declared to be a vexatious litigant has not applied for, or has not been granted, leave to proceed in those proceedings, any other party to those proceedings may apply to the Court for an order for the costs incurred by that party in those proceedings.