Alexander Chaffers

Alexander Chaffers was a notorious lawyer who was a party in the scandal of Sir Travers and Lady Twiss in 1872 and was subsequently considered such a vexatious litigant that the Vexatious Actions Act was passed in 1896 to stop him.[1][2][3]

References

  1. Boase, Frederic (1906), Modern English Biography, Vol 4, pp. 628–629
  2. Fitzmaurice, Andrew (2010), "The Justification of King Leopold II's Congo Enterprise by Sir Travers Twiss", Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought, Springer, p. 110, ISBN 9780230114388
  3. Taggart, Michael (2004), "Alexander Chaffers and the genesis of the Vexatious Actions Act 1896", Cambridge Law Journal, Vol. 63 (3): 656–684, doi:10.1017/S0008197304006713
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