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Real estate agent Rajibul Islam led cops on a wild chase in his $180,000 Maserati Ghibli. Now a judge has delivered a final humiliation after police seized the supercar

G.Perez27 min ago
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A former real estate agent involved in a police chase while behind the wheel of a Maserati has been banned from launching new legal action after he tried to use AI to mount his defence and a judge criticised his 'bizarre and offensive' evidence.

Mohammad Rajibul Islam, a former co-principal of the Raine & Horne Real Estate franchise in Ingleburn in Sydney 's south-west, was handed a one-year community corrections order in May for his involvement in a police pursuit last year.

Mr Islam, who had been behind the wheel of a leased $180,000 Maserati Ghibli, has pleaded not guilty to driving while under the influence of drugs. The drugs charge remains before the courts.

Around nine months before the police pursuit, Mr Islam, 38, had fallen out with his business partner Abu Ratul, who subsequently sought to wind up their company, Australian Real Estate Relations Pty Ltd.

The bitter dispute prompted a flurry of complex legal cases, as Mr Islam unsuccessfully sought to challenge the winding up order.

Over the last two years, he has sued a number of individuals and entities linked to the business, including his own former lawyer, Mr Ratul, Raine & Horne, Commonwealth Bank, NSW Police, the Australian Securities & Investments Commission and even the The Secretary for the NSW Ministry of Health.

In one case he sought $50million in liquidated damages. None have been successful.

And in a savage judgement published in the Supreme Court of NSW last week, Mr Islam was blasted for being a 'vexatious litigant' and banned from launching legal action against multiple individuals.

The case was brought against Mr Islam by a car dealership and a financing company who had provided Mr Islam with a Maserati Ghibli in December 2021.

The car was later repossessed following the winding up order in a manner which Mr Islam found 'humiliating', the judgment noted.

Lawyers for the car dealership and financing companies argued that since the winding up order, 'Mr Islam has brought or continued a spate of pointless and unmeritorious proceedings against various parties associated with the initial transaction, the subsequent liquidation, and consequential events', the judgement recorded.

Justice Guy Parker was less than impressed with Mr Islam's case, whereby he represented himself.

'It is sufficient to say that it was full of (apparently) completely unsubstantiated allegations of fraud, and rambling commentary which had no conceivable relevance to the legal merits of the proceedings in question,' Justice Parker noted.

'Some of it was bizarre and some of it was downright offensive.'

A previous judge had described his pleadings as 'embarrassing and confusing'.

Justice Parker noted that Mr Islam had admitted that some of his court documents had been 'prepared with the assistance of an artificial intelligence program'.

The judge said that his notice of motion exhibited a 'deployment of legal language without any real understanding of the legal rules being invoked'.

Justice Parker noted that Mr Islam claimed he had apologised to one of the plaintiffs and said that he was planning to study law.

Mr Islam urged the judge not to make an order under the Vexatious Proceedings Act in case it impacted his ability to practice as a solicitor.

In the end, Justice Parker disagreed and banned Mr Islam from launching any legal action in relation to the Maserati.

'One fundamental problem, never addressed at any stage in anything that I heard from Mr Islam, is that the car which caused all of this trouble did not ever even belong to him,' Justice Parker noted.

When approached for his response to the judgment by Daily Mail Australia approached, Mr Islam said: 'While I respect His Honour's ruling, there are several details and complexities in this matter that were unfortunately not fully captured in the judgment.'

He then suggested he had been victim to 'unfair practices and alleged misconduct, including actions by certain individuals that I believe were intended to damage my business and personal reputation'.

Mr Islam said that the repossession of the Maserati was a stunt and 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 by since working from age of 17 after coming to Australia for a better life.

'But NSW Supreme Court only listens to Big Barristers.'

Bizarrely, Mr Islam then asked this publication to refer him to a lawyer because no one was willing to represent him.

'Me and my wife can't get a lawyer regardless of us arranging funds,' he said.

'We are worse then (sic) the leftover left by Bruce Lehman (sic) and Britanny (sic) Higgins on the parliament sofa, because even he received a counsel.'

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