McGettigan v Coulter

[2024] NSWCA 148

NSW Court of Appeal

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Interrogate

Catchwords

1. Appeal
2. › Leave to appeal
3. › Interlocutory orders
4. › Orders under Vexatious Proceedings Act 2008 (NSW), s 8
5. › Whether orders interlocutory
6. › Whether leave required
7. › Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW), s 101(2)(e)
1. Appeal
2. › Leave to appeal
3. › Test for grant of leave
4. › Whether issue of principle, question of public importance or reasonably clear injustice
5. › No arguable errors identified
1. Practice and Procedure
2. › Vexatious proceedings
3. › Declaration of vexatious litigant
4. › Sufficiency of evidence
5. › Frequently instituted vexatious proceedings
6. › Vexatious Proceedings Act 2008 (NSW), ss 6, 8
1. Practice and Procedure
2. › Abuse of process
3. › Strike out of statement of claim
4. › Attempt to relitigate matters previously determined
5. › Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW), r 14.28

Quick Take

Orders under s 8 of the Vexatious Proceedings Act 2008 (NSW) are interlocutory in the settled position of the NSWCA, requiring leave to appeal under s 101(2)(e) of the Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW), notwithstanding the Federal Court's different conclusion regarding analogous federal provisions.