vexatious action BrE , także: vexatious litigation

Security can also be ordered where a plaintiff is insolvent, or prone to vexatious litigation.

Abusive litigants in civil cases are most often classified as vexatious litigation, frivolous litigation, or both.

Therefore, experts would be more likely to abandon such work than advocates, making them more vulnerable to vexatious litigation.

He said that most vexatious litigation was ended by summary judgment.

At common law, maintenance and champerty were both crimes and torts, as was barratry, the bringing of vexatious litigation.

American law offers numerous examples of vexatious litigation - abusive, inflated, meritless lawsuits.

"Most frivolous and vexatious litigation," it said, is soon dismissed, "with little if any personal involvement by the defendant."

The court even dubbed it "vexatious litigation".

It found that the settlement did not violate antitrust law but simply resolved costly and vexatious litigation.

His main argument is that the settlements do not violate antitrust law because they resolve costly and vexatious litigation.