Includes index. Contents include: Part one - Background to the vexatious litigant sanction: Different dimensions of the vexatious litigant p11; Judical and statutory control of vexatious litigants p33. Part Two - Six maverick litigants : Rupert Frederick Millane: Inventor, entrepreneur, crank p69 ; Ellen Cecilia Barlow: Legal pioneer p105 ; Elisa Davis: Entertainer, composer, eccentric p131; Goldamith Collins: Footballer, fencer, maverick litigator ; p173 : Constance May Bienvenu: Animal welfare activist p211; Dieter Soegemeier: Don Quixote at law p245. Appendix: Australian vexatious litigant register (1930-2009) p286.