Two recent decisions of the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia, Wilmink v Westpac Banking Corporation and Atkinson v Commissioner of Taxation, should serve as a warning to self-represented litigants not to pursue hopeless and nonsensical claims. In each case, the Full Federal Court said that the limited resources of the Court should not have been spent dealing with the claims and that the proceedings would be referred to the Registrar to consider whether to apply for a vexatious proceedings order. Read about the cases here.
A warning to self-represented litigants – Don’t pursue hopeless and nonsensical claims!
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