Anthony John Wheaton fails to launch multimillion-dollar court bid

The “baseless and scandalous” allegations of a man who wanted to sue a number of defendants for millions of dollars have been dismissed by a Federal Court judge.

A TASMANIAN man has failed in his bid to sue 10 different people and organisations for “many millions of dollars” over a series of “obscure grievances”.

Anthony John Wheaton submitted a number of “lengthy and incomprehensible” documents to the Federal Court of Australia between July and November last year, which Justice David O’Callaghan said involved “baseless and scandalous allegations”.

Mr Wheaton’s allegations were centred around various topics, including the workplace accident and death of his father in 1962, people removing funds from his bank accounts, issues over a woman’s medical treatment, issues over a friend’s family law proceedings that he was seemingly not a party to, breaches of agreements over the proposed purchase of properties and a vehicle, the remediation of one of the properties following a fire, and claims of professional misconduct.

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One of Mr Wheaton’s claims sought $6 million in economic relief and called on the defendants to be sent to prison, while another described his opponents’ “gall”, “temerity” and “chutzpah”.

Another claim sought almost $2.5 million for Mr Wheaton and another person to “contemplate their intended semi-retirements in the manor (sic) to which they had become accustomed”.

But a Federal Court judicial registrar refused to accept Mr Wheaton’s documents after she deemed them to be an abuse of court process, or otherwise frivolous or vexatious, and was unable to identify any Commonwealth law or cause of action the court had jurisdiction to hear.

Mr Wheaton applied for her decisions to be judicially reviewed, and made oral submissions on his own behalf before Justice O’Callaghan in March.

But the judge last week dismissed his application.

“In my view, the registrar was clearly correct to refuse to accept each of the documents for filing,” he said.

“Each of them is on its face a patent abuse of process, because in every respect they make allegations that, among other descriptions that may be made of them, are doomed to fail.”