Legal abuse
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Legal abuse refers to unfair or improper legal action initiated with selfish or malicious intentions. Abuse can originate from nearly any part of the legal system, including frivolous and vexatious litigants, abuses by law enforcement, incompetent, careless or corrupt attorneys and misconduct from the judiciary itself.
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See also
- Abuse of process
- Arbitrary arrest and detention
- Attorney misconduct
- Bullying in the legal profession
- Abuse of discretion
- Copyfraud
- Conspiracy against rights
- Contempt of court
- Corruption
- Cruel and unusual punishment
- Entrapment
- False accusations
- False arrest
- Gaming the system
- Ineffective assistance of counsel
- Jurisdictional arbitrage
- Jury tampering
- Kangaroo court
- Legal malpractice
- Legal opportunism
- Legal technicality
- Loophole
- Malicious prosecution
- Making false statements
- Miscarriage of justice
- Obstruction of justice
- Perjury
- Perversion of the course of justice
- Preemptive arrest
- Professional responsibility
- Prosecutorial misconduct
- Recklessness (law)
- Sharp practice
- Show trial
- Spoliation of evidence
- Strategic lawsuit against public participation
- Summary judgment
- Therapeutic jurisprudence
- Vexatious litigation
- Witness tampering
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