Federal Court Rules 2011

A party may apply to the Court for an order that all or part of a pleading be struck out on the ground that the pleading:

contains scandalous material; or

contains frivolous or vexatious material; or

is evasive or ambiguous; or

is likely to cause prejudice, embarrassment or delay in the proceeding; or

fails to disclose a reasonable cause of action or defence or other case appropriate to the nature of the pleading; or

is otherwise an abuse of the process of the Court.

A party may apply for an order that the pleading be removed from the Court file if the pleading contains material of a kind mentioned in paragraph (1)(a), (b) or (c) or is otherwise an abuse of the process of the Court.