Friday, August 20, 2010

In the 1980s an English psychiatrist used the term, “litigious paranoia,” to describe a medical condition in which a person obsessively engages in persistent, unnecessary litigation.


"I am quite satisfied that the claimant, sadly, has become obsessive about his treatment in May 1994 [an alleged unlawful eviction from his accommodations at the Brompton Hotel in London] to the point where all reason and proportionality have deserted him. . . . The allegations he has chosen to make against responsible professionals in this case, allegations, which in some cases, are wild, scurrilous and outrageous demonstrates to me that the claimant can no longer be relied upon to behave in a reasonable and responsible manner in deciding whether to litigate or not." Litigious Paranoia: Confronting And Controlling Abusive Litigation In The United States, The United Kingdom, And Australia. International Review of Business Research Papers, Vol. 5 No. 1 January 2009 Pp. 11-27.

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