Staying Proceedings

Staying proceedings. By the Judicature Act, 1875, s. 24 (5), the courts had power to stay proceedings in cases where an injunction or prohibition could formerly have been obtained, but in which such course, by the consolidation of the superior courts, is now put an end to. Every Court has an un-doubted inherent jurisdiction to stay proceedings on the ground that they are an abuse of the process of the court; see per Vaughan Williams, L.J., in Re Norton's Settlement, (1908) 1 Ch 479, approving Egbert v. Short, (1907) 2 Ch 205. As to staying pro-ceedings upon an appeal, see R.S.C. Ord. LVIII., r. 16, and for other cases illustrating this jurisdiction, see Annual Practice. See also the Vexatious Actions Act, 1896, and R.S.C. Ord. XXV., r. 4.