(12-02-2020, 08:48 AM)robkelk Wrote: Is this not sufficient to have this particular person declared a vexatious litigant (and, if a lawyer, disbarred)?
No.
For one, courts are understandably quite hesitant to declare someone a vexatious litigant. For another, unknowingly making false claims is not a crime nor punishable by law, even in the case of slander and libel, so long as one had a valid reason to make those claims.
Now, if miss Powel has a habit of making false claims and poor research that would be reason for the bar association to consider disbarring her. If she consistently and deliberately wastes the courts' time with her litigation she may eventually end up declared a vexatious litigant, but by that time she's probably been disbarred already. Lawyers are protected, at least in part, from becoming vexatious litigants on account of them working on the behalf of the actual litigant.
Being this sloppy with her paperwork and research is likely cause for censure from the bar association though, which isn't the same as disbarment.