NSW Caselaw
Supreme Court New South Wales
Medium Neutral Citation: Islam v Raine & Horne Corp [2023] NSWSC 1184 Hearing dates: 04 October 2023 Date of orders: 06 October 2023 Decision date: 06 October 2023 Jurisdiction: Common Law Before: Harrison J Decision: Proceedings dismissed with costs. Catchwords: CIVIL PROCEDURE – application to strike out statement of claim – where plaintiff acts for himself and pleads a string of genuinely held but unparticularised grievances – where identical statement of claim already filed and summarily dismissed in Equity Division Legislation Cited: Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW) r 13.4 Vexatious Proceedings Act 2008 (NSW) s 8 Cases Cited: In the matter of Raine & Horne Corporation [2023] NSWSC 706 Islam v Mitry Lawyers Pty Ltd [2023] NSWSC 700 Islam v Ratul (District Court (NSW), Andronos SC DCJ, 31 May 2023, unrep.) Islam v UI Karim [2023] NSWSC 717 Category: Principal judgment Parties: Md Rajibul Islam (Plaintiff) Edmund Angus Raine (2nd Defendant) Celeste Kopps (3rd Defendant) Representation: Counsel: S Philips (2nd and 3rd Defendants)
Solicitors: Russell Kennedy Lawyers File Number(s): 2023/195738 Publication restriction: Nil
JUDGMENT 1. HIS HONOUR: By notice of motion filed on 10 August 2023, Edmund Angus Raine and Celeste Kopps seek orders in the alternative that the proceedings be dismissed or that the statement of claim filed on 19 June 2023 be struck out. For the reasons that follow, I consider that the proceedings should be dismissed.
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