IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE FC3 95/5609/D
IN THE COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION)
(DISMISSAL LIST)

Royal Courts of Justice
Strand
London WC2

Wednesday 19 June 1996

B e f o r e:

THE MASTER OF THE ROLLS
(LORD WOOLF)
LORD JUSTICE HOBHOUSE
LORD JUSTICE MORRITT
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LANDAU & LANDAU (A firm)


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LANDAU-ADAMS & ANOR


JUDGMENT

LORD WOOLF: This matter is listed before the court because Mr Landau, who has 
been declared a vexatious litigant, was purporting to act on behalf of his daughter 
under a power of attorney. 

The court always has a residual discretion to allow someone to present someone 
else if, in special circumstances, it is appropriate to do so. I will make it clear that in 
this case the court is quite satisfied that it would not be right allow Mr
Landau to use the power of attorney to appear on behalf of his daughter. 
The court has also had an opportunity of looking at the decision of Knox J in this 
matter and on the material contained in the papers. The court takes the view that the 
decision of the learned judge was perfectly appropriate and the right
decision, so there is nothing in Mr Landau's application to this court in any event. 
However, we also take into account that Mr Landau has said that his daughter is 
applying for legal aid. 

We will reserve to the daughter the ability to make an application on her own behalf 
through lawyers. Nothing we have said today is intended to prevent her doing that if it 
is appropriate to do so.