SINGAPORE – Anti-vaccine group founder, Iris Koh, and her husband appeared in the High Court on July 15 after the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) sought to have them declared as vexatious litigants.
A vexatious litigant is someone who habitually, persistently, and without reasonable grounds initiates legal proceedings, typically to harass opponents or abuse the court process.
The AGC had filed an application to require Koh, founder of Healing the Divide, and her husband, Raymond Ng, to seek the court’s permission before commencing new civil proceedings or continuing with existing civil suits.
Addressing Justice Hoo Sheau Peng on July 15, AGC’s head of advocacy group, Vincent Leow, said it was clear the couple viewed commencing civil litigation on others as an instant recourse.
Said Leow: “The moment they feel aggrieved, their instinct is to sue.”
He added the couple had a habit of filing multiple lawsuits against various individuals and entities, and raising funds through crowdfunding to pay for legal fees.
Leow said: “I urge Your Honour to look at this holistically. Crowdfunding the costs for one court case does not make a person a vexatious litigant. But each time they file (a lawsuit), they file it without basis.
“When they’re found to have abused the court process, their crowdfunding pays it off, and they use the money to improve their artificial intelligence (AI) processes.”
Ng had previously announced he had developed an AI system for the sole purpose of suing people for defamation.
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