EXCLUSIVE
A former estate agent involved in a police chase while at the wheel of a Maserati has been banned from taking further legal action after he attempted to use artificial intelligence to mount his defense and a judge criticized his “bizarre and offensive” evidence.
Mohammad Rajibul Islam, former co-director of the Raine & Horne Real Estate franchise in Ingleburn, in Sydney’s southwest, was given a one-year community corrections order in May for his involvement in a police chase last year.
Islam, who had been behind the wheel of a Maserati Ghibli rented for $180,000, pleaded not guilty to driving under the influence of drugs. The drug charge remains before the courts.
About nine months before the police chase, Islam, 38, had fallen out with his business partner Abu Ratul, who subsequently tried to liquidate his company, Australian Real Estate Relations Pty Ltd.
The bitter dispute sparked a series of complex legal cases, as Islam tried unsuccessfully to challenge the liquidation order.
Over the past two years, he has sued a number of people and entities linked to the business, including his own former lawyer Mr Ratul, Raine & Horne, Commonwealth Bank, New South Wales Police, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and even the Secretary. for the New South Wales Ministry of Health.
In one case he asked for $50 million in damages. None have been successful.
And in a savage ruling released in the NSW Supreme Court last week, Islam was criticized for being a “vexatious litigant” and banned from taking legal action against multiple individuals.
Mohammad Rajibul Islam, former co-director of the Raine & Horne Real Estate franchise in Ingleburn, south-west Sydney, was given a one-year community corrections order in May for his involvement in a police chase last year while driving a Maserati Ghibli ( in the photo)
Over the past two years, Islam (pictured) has sued a number of people and entities linked to the business, including his own former lawyer, Ratul, Raine & Horne, Commonwealth Bank, New South Wales Police, the Australian Police Commission. Securities and Investments and Even the Secretary of the New South Wales Ministry of Health. None of their cases have been successful.
The case was brought against Islam by a car dealership and finance company that had provided him with a Maserati Ghibli in December 2021.
The car was subsequently repossessed following the liquidation order in a manner that Islam considered “humiliating”, the ruling states.
Lawyers for the car dealers and finance companies argued that since the liquidation order, “Mr Islam has commenced or continued a series of futile and unmerited proceedings against various parties associated with the initial transaction, the subsequent liquidation and the events consequences,” according to the ruling. recorded.
Judge Guy Parker was not very impressed with Mr Islam’s case, so he represented himself.
“Suffice it to say that it was filled with (apparently) completely unfounded allegations of fraud and incoherent comments which had no conceivable relevance to the legal merits of the proceedings in question,” Judge Parker noted.
“Some things were strange and some things were downright offensive.”
A previous judge had described his allegations as “embarrassing and confusing.”
Judge Parker noted that Islam had admitted that some of his court documents had been “prepared with the aid of an artificial intelligence program.”
The judge said his notice of motion exhibited a “deployment of legal language without a real understanding of the legal rules being invoked.”
Judge Parker noted that Islam claimed he had apologized to one of the plaintiffs and said he planned to study law.
Islam urged the judge not to make an order under the Vexatious Procedures Act in case it affected his ability to practice as a lawyer.
In the end, Judge Parker disagreed and prohibited Mr Islam from taking any legal action in relation to the Maserati.
Mr Islame’s Maserati was subsequently repossessed following the liquidation order in a manner deemed “humiliating”, the judgment notes (Mr Islame is pictured with former colleagues on the far left).
“A fundamental issue, which was never addressed at any point in what I heard from Mr. Islam, is that the car that caused all of these problems did not even belong to him,” Judge Parker said.
Asked by Daily Mail Australia for his response to the ruling, Mr Islam said: “While I respect your Honour’s ruling, there are a number of details and complexities in this matter which unfortunately were not fully reflected in the judgement.”
He then suggested that he had been the victim of “unfair practices and alleged misconduct, including actions by certain individuals that I believe were intended to harm my business and personal reputation.”
Islam said the recovery of the Maserati was a stunt and that he had simply tried to convey to the court the impact its loss has had on his life.
“But no one heard my voice,” he said.
‘I have worked from McDonalds to owning a real estate agency since I was 17 after coming to Australia in search of a better life.
“But the NSW Supreme Court only listens to big lawyers.”
Interestingly, Islam then asked this publication to refer him to a lawyer because no one was willing to represent him.
“My wife and I can’t get a lawyer even though we get the funds,” he said.
“We are worse than (sic) the remains left by Bruce Lehman (sic) and Britanny (sic) Higgins on the couch in parliament, because even he was given a lawyer.”
