A court may, of its own motion and without declaring a litigant vexatious, direct its Registrar to vacate the return date of any further motion by a litigant seeking substantially the same relief, and refer the papers to a Judge in Chambers to determine whether the application should proceed or whether the litigant should show cause why it should not be summarily dismissed as vexatious and an abuse of process. This procedure (a 'Teoh Order') provides a proportionate mechanism to protect court resources from repeated unmeritorious applications without the more drastic step of a vexatious litigant declaration.
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