Judicature Act 1908:
Rules and Provisions of Law in Judicial Matters Generally

   [ [[88A.]] Restriction on institution of vexatious actions---(1) If,
 on an application made by the Attorney-General under this section, [[the
 High Court]] is satisfied that any person has persistently and without
 any reasonable ground instituted vexatious legal proceedings, whether in
 [[the High Court]] or in any inferior Court, and whether against the
 same person or against different persons, the Court may, after hearing
 that person or giving him an opportunity of being heard, order that no
 civil proceeding or no civil proceeding against any particular person or
 persons shall without the leave of [[the High Court]] or a Judge thereof
 be instituted by him in any Court and that any civil proceeding
 instituted by him in any Court before the making of the order shall not
 be continued by him without such leave.

   (2) Leave may be granted subject to such conditions (if any) as the
 Court or Judge thinks fit and shall not be granted unless the Court or
 Judge is satisfied that the proceeding is not an abuse of the process of
 the Court and that there is prima facie ground for the proceeding.

   (3) No appeal shall lie from an order granting or refusing such
 leave.]
       This section was inserted by s. 3 of the Judicature Amendment Act
     1965 (as amended by s. 3 (2) of the Judicature Amendment Act 1966).
       This section, which was originally numbered 71A, was renumbered
     88A by s. 3 (1) of the Judicature Amendment Act 1966.