[Pre-Draft] - Barratry, Champerty and Vexatious Litigation

[Simone]

The World Assembly (WA),

Noting previous resolutions to enhance judicial due process, such as GARs 201, 466, 513;

Desiring a prohibition of champerty and maintenance in order to democratize the judicial process;

1. Defines:
   1. Body to mean any legislative or judicial body of a WA state;
   2. Maintenance to specifically mean manutenentia in champerty, to the hindrance of common rights;
2. Requires, subject to extant WA resolutions:
   1. No WA state shall deem the following a criminal offence:
      1. Acting as a common barrator; or
      2. Champerty (including maintenance thereof);
   2. No WA shall deem the aforesaid to be a liability in tort unless the judicial body of a WA state finds conclusively that the litigant hinders:
      1. Free speech; or
      2. Common rights; or
      3. Otherwise contrary to the public interest; or
      4. Otherwise illegal in the laws of that WA state;
3. Clarifies that this resolution does not prohibit a court in a WA state from:
   1. Deeming a litigant vexatious in tort;
   2. Prejudice against the aforesaid litigant in awards on costs and damages.