Li Wang v State of NSW [2022] NSWSC 544

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Li Wang v State of NSW [2022] NSWSC 544 Hearing dates: 5 May 2022 Date of orders: 5 May 2022 Decision date: 05 May 2022 Jurisdiction: Common Law Before: Rothman J Decision: (1) The plaintiff's Motion of 22 March 2022 is dismissed. (2) The plaintiff pay the first defendant's costs of the motion. (3) Should the plaintiff, Li Wang, seek to file any further application in this proceeding prior to 4 July 2022 hearing of the first defendant's motion, notice of which was filed 23 February 2022 and the plaintiff motions notices of which were filed on 11 and 28 February 2022 respectively, the plaintiff, Li Wang must at the same time file a document of no more than 5 pages showing cause why this Court should not in chambers summarily dismiss the application as vexatious and an abuse of process. Catchwords: CIVIL PROCEDURE – Motion to agitate issues underpinning proceedings listed for hearing on 4 July 2022 – abuse of process – significant number of repetitive applications seeking identical relief or substantially identical – motion dismissed – order made preventing further interlocutory proceedings before 4 July 2022 hearing determined. Cases Cited: Wang & Liu v New South Wales [2011] NSW 321 Wang v New South Wales [2009] NSWCA 340 Wang v New South Wales [2010] HCASL 273 Wang v New South Wales [2010] NSWCA 209 Wang v New South Wales [2011] NSWSC 609 Wang v New South Wales [2011] NSWSC 882 Wang v New South Wales [2013] NSWSC 386 Wang v New South Wales [2014] NSWCA 373 Wang v New South Wales [2014] NSWSC 661 Wang v New South Wales [2014] NSWSC 909 Wang v New South Wales [2019] NSWSC 1298 Wang v New South Wales [2019] NSWSC 1332 Wang v New South Wales (No 3) [2019] NSWSC 1599 Wang v New South Wales [2020] NSWCA 21 Wang v New South Wales (No 2) [2020] NSWCA 64 Wang v New South Wales (No 3) [2020] NSWCA 148 Wang v New South Wales (No 4) [2020] NSWCA 171 Teoh v Hunter Hill Council (No 7) [2012] NSWCA 356 Category: Procedural rulings Parties: Li Wang (Plaintiff) State of New South Wales (Defendant) Representation: Li Wang N. Bentley (First defendant) File Number(s): 2022/2581