This is a website which lists those individuals and companies that I personally think are vexatious litigants. I certainly don't need to have them officially designated as such by the courts to either hold this opinion, or to voice my comments, regarding their actions.
I happen to think they are bullies who abuse the legal system in order to suppress free speech and I'm happy to show the facts that support my views. That won't matter to them though, since there really is no such thing as free speech. The right to voice your opinion can come at quite a price. For me it's been about six years of my life spent before the courts of many lands, and a fair amount of money.
Still, it's been a life lesson and the equivalency of a law degree that I've acquired through a lot of research and effort in my battle to counter the narcissistic bullies of the world whose path I happen to cross.
Naturally they will consider suing me once again for suggesting that I have maligned their good name by voicing these comments or listing their information on this website. That's too bad. All the information I present is protected by qualified privilege and protected from use in defamation actions.
If only you knew how funny that sounds. Vexatious litigants don't care about the laws. They continously use the courts to bully people into submission by creating a situation where the cost of defending one's self is prohibitively expensive. Not to malign the legal profession, but the moment you need to hire a lawyer (Canada and Commonwealth courts) or an attorney (United States) you have basically fallen into their trap and already lost.
Their goal, in my expert opinion, is not to protect their good name, but to silence any detractors. Truth matters not one iota. Charles Manson can sue you for defamation and it will be years before you get a chance to prove what you might have said about him is true. Contrary to popular belief you can't just raise your hand and say "Excuse me, your Honor, but this guy actually did the things I said he did."
Nope, you have to go through dozens of motions and tons of paperwork before you ever get to use the old "truth is the ultimate defense" strategy. And that takes years and, if you retain a lawyer, tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees that you will never see again.
In fact, it doesn't matter whether you actually said or wrote anything at all. Once the accusation is made, plan on a long and expensive ride through a bureaucratic tunnel with scant light at the end of it.
The truly vexatious litigant doesn't care if he loses, especially if the name on the paperwork is just some shell corporation without any assets. If the bogus corporation wins, they can easily siphon off any damages they collect from you, but if they lose and are ordered to pay your costs, they just fold up.
Worse, they just form a new corporation and sue you all over again for the very same thing. Legal rules and limitations don't mean a thing to them. Sue and keep suing is their motto. Hound the innocent until they are broke, burnt-out or dead.
Since the expense of forming a paper corporation is almost as small as that of filing a lawsuit, mere hundreds of dollars, there is really no financial barrier to using these tactics.
Why, you ask, would a person or company bother to sue someone over and over again? Would it be to protect their reputation as an upstanding citizen from malicious detractors bent on their destruction? That's what they'll try to tell the public and the judges, but the truth can be quite different.
In my case, I report upon questionable or downright illegal operations that affect consumers in some way. In other words, I try to warn people before they get scammed. Scammers don't like when I do this because it costs them money. Since they can only steal from people who don't realize that the person or company isn't on the up and up, anyone who pulls back the curtain of deception puts a crimp in their cash flow.
"But," you suggest, "aren't the authorities supposed to warn people about ongoing crimes or, better yet, arrest the bad guys before they can do any more harm?" In a dream world perhaps, but the reality is that most criminal operations operate unimpeded by law enforcment or any government agency for several years, if not decades, before they even begin to consider shutting them down.
By then your money is long gone, never to be seen again. And the prospect of a white collar criminal serving any serious prison time for his crimes is remote. So there really are no great deterrents to stop clever consumer based crimes. The fact is, crime does pay, handsomely.
There are a few costs of running an enterprise based on fraud though, and one of them is the relatively small cost of silencing detractors through civil litigation. Simply hire an unscrupulous, impoverished or inept in-house lawyer who is willing to send out reams of threatening letters and file boilerplate lawsuits for defamation or whatever else they can think of. Since their Bar Associations don't get too excited about such activity they can usually keep at it until they get screwed over by their employer and move on.
This site will recount my experiences with the legal system and will hopefully act as a guide to those that might end up in my shoes at some point. Seriously, that is not something I'd wish upon my worst enemy but if it helps just one person or shines a light on this abuse of the legal system it will be worth the effort.