Frivolous or Vexatious definition
Frivolous or Vexatious means the complaint is initiated with malicious intent or is part of a pattern of conduct by the complainant that amounts to an abuse of the Formal Complaints process.
Frivolous or Vexatious means a complaint that has no reasonable or sound basis in fact or law, is without merit, and/or has been brought with the primary intent or harassing, discrediting or subduing a Respondent.
Frivolous or Vexatious means “obviously unsustainable” or “wrong”. A case that is “plainly and obviously unsustainable” is one which is either legally or factually unsustainable. A case is legally unsustainable if “it
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More Definitions of Frivolous or Vexatious
Frivolous or Vexatious means the complaint is initiated with the intent to embarrass or annoy the recipient or is part of a “pattern of conduct” by the complainant that amounts to an abuse of the complaints process.
Frivolous or Vexatious means “obviously unsustainable” or “wrong”, A case that is “plainly and obviously sustainable” is one which is either legally or factually unsustainable. A case is legally unsustainable if “it may be clear as a matter of law at the outset that even if a party were to succeed in proving all the facts that he offers to prove he will not be entitled to the remedy that he seeks”. A case is factually unsustainable if it is “possible to say with confidence before trial that the factual basis for the claim is fanciful because it is entirely without substance, [for example, if it is] clear beyond question that the statement of facts is contradicted by all the documents or other material on which it is based”: The “Bunga Melati 5” [2012] 4 SLR 546 at [39](emphasis added)”
Frivolous or Vexatious means a proceeding which is not calculated to lead to any practical result and where the party bringing the proceeding is not acting in good faith and merely wishes to embarrass or annoy their opponent;