Singapore legislation
Clause 75
Clause 75
Vexatious litigants
(1)
If, on an application made by the Attorney-General, the High Court is satisfied that any person has habitually and persistently and without any reasonable ground instituted vexatious legal proceedings, whether in the High Court or in any subordinate court, and whether against the same person or against different persons, the Court may, after hearing that person or giving him an opportunity of being heard, order that no legal proceedings shall without the leave of the High Court be instituted by him in any court, and that any legal proceedings instituted by him in any court before the making of the order shall not be continued by him without such leave, and such leave shall not be given unless the Court is satisfied that the proceedings are not an abuse of the process of the Court and that there is prima facie ground for the proceedings.
(2)
If the person against whom an order is sought under subsection (1) of this section is unable on account of poverty to retain an advocate and solicitor, the High Court shall assign one to him.
(3)
No appeal shall lie from an order under subsection (1) of this section refusing leave for institution or continuance of legal proceedings.
(4)
A copy of any order under subsection (1) of this section shall be published in the Gazette.