Vexatious Litigants - Views of MR

 Legal Practitioner
More good stuff from LEGAL PRACTITIONER Consilio Magazine,
edited by Norman Baird and Mike Semple Piggot 
 
Vexatious Litigants & Access to Justice: Past, Present, Future
Speech by Rt Hon Sir Anthony Clarke, Master of the Rolls
Accessed via Consilio
30 June 2006
http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/publications_media/speeches/2006/sp300606.htm
It gives me great pleasure to give this, the first of the keynote
speeches today. Before doing so I owe perhaps a few words
of explanation as to the title. It is sometimes said that
restrictions placed on a vexatious litigant's ability to issue
and continue with proceedings infringe that individual's right
of access to justice. In this paper I argue that such restrictions
do not conflict with that right. They may restrict access to justice
but they do not infringe the right of access to justice. Any conflict
between the right of access and the restriction placed upon it in this
context is more apparent than real. In what follows I intend to outline
my reasons for holding this view.