A Lawyer’s Toolkit For Dealing With Vexatious Litigants

Join Jeff Hardman as he delivers our next webinar with James Hazel and Steven Hudson.

This guide offers a survival strategy to effectively manage vexatious litigants by utilising a range of formal and informal mechanisms available to businesses, lawyers and those engaged in ADR.

In this webinar Jeff Hardman (Barrister, New Square Chambers), James Hazel (Employment & Business Relations Consultant, Mediator & Author) and Steven Hudson (Legal Director, Schillings LLP) tackle some of the practical, legal and reputational challenges faced by litigators, organisations and employees when confronted with a vexatious complainant.

This webinar will cover:

• What are vexatious litigants and why are they are problem? In particular, why does the managerialist approach (i.e. encouraging litigants to engage in a complex system of complaint processes) make the problem worse?
• Common tactics deployed by vexatious litigants.
• How to respond to a litigant exhibiting unreasonable and disproportionate behaviour during court proceedings, including:
  • Best practice generally.
  • Civil restraint orders and alternatives.
  • Third Party Cost Orders.
  • Injunctions.
• Understanding likely reputation risks posed by vexatious litigants and how best to manage them.
• ADR – how to approach mediation with vexatious litigants differently.