Attorney General written question – answered at on 13 April 2026.
Neil Shastri-Hurst
Conservative, Solihull West and Shirley
To ask the Solicitor General, how many applications to the High Court the Attorney General's Office has made in each of the past five years to designate an individual as a vexatious litigant.
Ellie Reeves
Party Chair, Labour Party, The Solicitor-General
The Law Officers have made applications to the High Court under s.42 Senior Courts Act 1981 in each of the last five years as follows:
2021 – 1
2022 - none
2023 - none
2024 – 2
2025 – 2 (3 further applications lodged with directions/hearing dates pending)
These dates relate to when the applications were made at a court hearing.
A list of individuals subject to an order under s.42 and the date the order was made is available online: Vexatious litigants - GOV.UK
Yes0 people think so
No0 people think not
Would you like to ask a question like this yourself? Use our Freedom of Information site.
The Attorney General, assisted by the Solicitor General, is the chief legal adviser to the Government. The Attorney General also has certain public interest functions, for example, in taking action to protect charities.
The Attorney General has overall responsibility for The Treasury Solicitor's Department, superintends the Director of Public Prosecutions as head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), the Director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and the Director of Public Prosecutions in Northern Ireland. The Law Officers answer for these Departments in Parliament.
The Attorney General and the Solicitor General also deal with questions of law arising on Government Bills and with issues of legal policy. They are concerned with all major international and domestic litigation involving the Government and questions of European Community and International Law as they may affect Her Majesty's Government.
see also, http://www.lslo.gov.uk/
