Vexatious LiP made himself 'bomb-proof' from £200k unpaid costs orders | News
By John Hyde2021-05-25T09:20:00+01:00 A serial litigant in person has lost his latest claim in the High Court with a judge concluding he had ‘played the system’. In Nicholson v Hardy deputy ICC Judge Barnett ruled that there were no grounds for Mark Hardy’s claim for compensation against a liquidator handling the affairs of a company where he was a creditor. The judgment stated that Hardy owed a six-figure sum in adverse costs orders for other cases but had paid nothing towards them. Hardy had sought to claim money following allegations of misfeasance and breach of fiduciary duty...