Hong Kong Ordinances

HIGH COURT ORDINANCE - SECT 27

Vexatious litigants

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 25 of 1998 s. 2

(1) If, on an application made by the Secretary for Justice under this
section, the Court of First Instance is satisfied that any person has
habitually and persistently and without any reasonable ground instituted
vexatious legal proceedings, whether in the Court of First Instance or in any
inferior court, and whether against the same person or against different
persons, the Court of First Instance may, after hearing that person or giving
him an opportunity of being heard, order that no legal proceedings shall
without the leave of the Court of First Instance be instituted by him in any
court and that any proceedings instituted by him in any court before the
making of the order shall not be continued by him without such leave and such
leave shall not be given unless the Court of  First Instance is satisfied that
the proceedings are not an abuse of the process of the Court and that there is
prima facie ground for the proceedings. (Amended L.N. 362 of 1997; 25 of 1998
s. 2)

(2) A copy of any order made under subsection (1) shall be published in the
Gazette. (Added 52 of 1987 s. 21) [cf. 1925 c. 49 s. 51 U.K.]