The Court of Appeal varied a stay imposed under s 62A of the Vexatious Proceedings Act 2005 (Qld) to dismiss both appeals with indemnity costs, where the appellant had already been refused leave to proceed under s 11 of the Act and the appeals had no prospect of success. Indemnity costs were awarded on the basis that the appellant's conduct groundlessly prolonged proceedings in respect of plainly untenable claims that were always bound to fail, applying the principles in Colgate-Palmolive v Cussons (1993) 46 FCR 225.
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