[name withheld] ordered security for costs against the appellant on the basis that the appeal had no prospect of success, where the grounds of appeal replicated arguments already rejected at first instance and comprised legally unmeritorious sovereign citizen-type contentions (including Magna Carta jury rights, gold/silver currency requirements under s 115 of the Constitution, Bills of Exchange Act applicability to mortgages, and challenges to District Court jurisdiction as a non-Chapter III court). The decision confirms that such arguments provide a strong basis for security for costs orders given the absence of any prospect of success on appeal.
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