Posts Tagged ‘vexatious’
Sources of Superior Courts’ Jurisdiction to Declare Litigants to be Vexatious
Source: University of Calgary Faculty of Law, ABlawg.ca
Originally posted on August 4, 2015 by Jonnette Watson Hamilton
By: Jonnette Watson Hamilton
Case Commented On: Sikora Estate (Re), 2015 ABQB 467 (CanLII)
This decision indirectly raises a question about the jurisdiction of Alberta’s Court of Queen’s Bench and Court of Appeal to declare that a person cannot start or continue court proceedings without first obtaining the court’s permission, i.e., to declare that a person is Read more [...]
Judicial Control of Vexatious Activity in the Courts (Summary of UK Approach)
Foreword:
Admin JMad: I highly recommend you read Joan Donnelly’s “Inherent Jurisdiction and Inherent Powers of Irish Courts”, Judicial Studies Institute Journal, 2009:2, 122, in which Donnelly rectifies Jacob and begins to distinguish inherent power from inherent jurisdiction. Donnelly also sets up helpful categories for each.
Judicial Control of Vexatious Activityin the Courts
AUTHORITIES
Statutory Framework
Section 42 Supreme Court Act 1981
Civil, criminal Read more [...]
Judicial Control of Querulous Litigants by Mr. Justice Yves-Marie Morissette, Quebec Court of Appeal (2008)
DOSSIER: EXTREME BEHAVIORQuerulousness and Vexatious Behaviors
1.Extreme Behavior
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Extreme Behavior – “Querulousness” by Dr. Jacques Gagnon
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Extreme Behavior – “Judicial Control of Querulous Litigants” by Mr. Justice [sic] Yves-Marie Morissette
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Extreme Behavior – “A Portrait of Querulous Behavior” by Le Spécialiste “with the kind collaboration of Mr. Justice Y.-M. Morissette”
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Elsevier – “Evaluation Read more [...]
Section III – Code of Civil Procedure (Updated to 1 September 2015)
EXTRACT
Updated to 1 September 2015
© Éditeur officiel du Québec
Ce document a valeur officielle. [Only when online by the government]
Chapter C-25
BOOK I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
TITLE II
THE COURTS
CHAPTER III
POWERS OF COURTS AND JUDGES
SECTION III
POWER TO IMPOSE SANCTIONS FOR IMPROPER USE OF PROCEDURE
This Section is inserted by section 2 of chapter 12 of the Statutes of 2009 (An Act to amend the Code of Civil Procedure to prevent improper use of the Read more [...]
Pathology and Therapeutic of the
Warlike Litigant
Foreword
This featured item is an exclusive English translation of an article in French by Yves-Marie Morrissette, Rhodes Scholar and legal adviser to the veiled Communist Parti Québécois (PQ). (You can read the PQ's Communist manifesto of 1972 or download it from the sidebar at CANADA How The Communists Took Control.)
The French article translated here, Pathologie et thérapeutique du plaideur trop belliqueux, first appeared in 2001 in volume 155 of a yearly journal of the Quebec Bar Association. Read more [...]




