“This Court has developed a new awareness and understanding of a category of vexatious litigant. As we shall see, while there is often a lack of homogeneity, and some individuals or groups have no name or special identity, they (by their own admission or by descriptions given by others) often fall into the following descriptions:
Detaxers; Freemen or Freemen-on-the-Land; Sovereign Men or Sovereign Citizens; Church of the Ecumenical Redemption International (CERI); Moorish Law; and other labels – there is no closed list. In the absence of a better moniker, I have collectively labelled them as Organized Pseudolegal Commercial Argument litigants [“OPCA litigants”], to functionally define them collectively for what they literally are.
These persons employ a collection of techniques and arguments promoted and sold by ‘gurus’ (as hereafter defined) to disrupt court operations and to attempt to frustrate the legal rights of governments, corporations, and individuals.
Over a decade of reported cases have proven that the individual concepts advanced by OPCA litigants are invalid. What remains is to categorize these schemes and concepts, identify global defects to simplify future response to variations of identified and invalid OPCA themes, and develop court procedures and sanctions for persons who adopt and advance these vexatious litigation strategies.”
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Some Australian cases citing Meads v Meads
- Ennis v Credit Union Australia [2016] FCCA 1705
- Kosteska v Magistrate Manthey & Anor [2013] QCA 105
- Adelaide City Council v Lepse [2016] SASC 66
- Deputy Commissioner of Taxation v Woods [2018] FCCA 1815
- Lion Finance Pty Ltd v Johnston [2018] FCCA 2745
- Coshott v Spencer [2016] NSWDC 43
- ACM Group Ltd v Jenner [2014] QMC 7
- Hewitt & Corbett 7 Anor [2016] FCCA 776
- K Sheridan v Colin Biggers & Paisley [2019] NSWSC 528 / 621
- Warren Ronald Wichman v Pepper Finance Corporation Limited [2019] NSWCA 195
- Rossiter v Adelaide City Council [2020] SASC 61
- Bauskis v Wainhouse & Ors [2020] NSWCA 17
- Petrie; Trustee of the property of Aitken (Bankrupt) v Aitken & Ors [2019] FCCA 16
- Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Limited v Grahame [2020] VSC 86
- Deputy Commissioner Of Taxation v Cutts (No.4) [2019] FCCA 2866
Photo: An extract from the transcript of one of Ross Bradley‘s 2019 cases
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