Cases Considered: Opal v. White, 2008 ABCA 25
PDF Version: Security for Costs on Appeals by Impecunious and Vexatious Litigants
The very short judgment of Mr. Justice Frans Slatter in Opal v. White is an unlikely candidate for a comment. It is barely more than a page – a scant seven paragraphs – and it cites neither rules nor precedents in deciding three applications for security for costs. Nevertheless, the judgment’s treatment of the issue of security for costs on an appeal of an order declaring the appellant to be a vexatious litigant is noteworthy.