Bail conditions that effectively impose a blanket prohibition on a person's access to the judicial system through the issuing of court proceedings are an extreme measure requiring a sufficient evidentiary foundation. An assumption that all future proceedings would amount to an abuse of process is insufficient to justify such a prohibition, particularly where existing court processes (including strike-out applications and the Vexatious Proceedings Act 2005 (Qld)) provide adequate remedies for actual abuse of process.
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