EXCLUSIVE
A former real estate agent involved in a police chase while behind the wheel of a Maserati has been banned from facing new legal action after he tried to use AI to boost 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 south-west, was given a one-year community corrections order in May for his involvement in a police chase last year.
Mr Islam, who had been behind the wheel of a rented Maserati Ghibli worth $180,000, has pleaded not guilty to drug driving. The drug charges are still in court.
About nine months before the police chase, Mr Islam, 38, had fallen out with his business partner Abu Ratul, who then tried to liquidate their company, Australian Real Estate Relations Pty Ltd.
The bitter dispute led to a flurry of complex lawsuits as Islam tried unsuccessfully to challenge the dissolution order.
Over the past two years he has sued a number of individuals and entities linked to the company, 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 Department of Health.
In one case, he sought $50 million in damages. None have been successful.
And in a brutal ruling published by the NSW Supreme Court last week, Mr Islam was lambasted for being a ‘vexatious litigant’ and banned from taking legal action against several individuals.
Mohammad Rajibul Islam, former co-director of the Raine & Horne Real Estate franchise in Ingleburn in Sydney’s south-west, was given a one-year community corrections order in May for his involvement in a police chase last year while behind the wheel of a Maserati Ghibli (photo)
Over the past two years, Mr Islam (pictured) has sued a number of individuals and entities linked to the company, including his own former lawyer, Mr Ratul, Raine & Horne, Commonwealth Bank, NSW Police, the Australian Securities & Investments Commission and even the Secretary of the NSW Department of Health. None of his businesses have been successful
The case was brought against Mr Islam by a car dealer and a finance company who provided Mr Islam with a Maserati Ghibli in December 2021.
The car was later seized following the liquidation order in a manner that Mr Islam found “humiliating”, the judgment said.
Lawyers for the car dealers and finance companies argued that since the dissolution order, “Mr. Islam has initiated or continued a wave of futile and unmeritorious proceedings against various parties involved in the original transaction, the subsequent liquidation and the resulting events’. included.
Judge Guy Parker was less than impressed with Islam’s case, in which he represented himself.
“Suffice it to say that it was full of (apparently) completely unsubstantiated allegations of fraud and incoherent commentary that had no relevance whatsoever to the legal merits of the proceedings in question,” Judge Parker noted.
“Some of it was bizarre and some of it was downright insulting.”
A previous judge had described his plea as ’embarrassing and confusing’.
Judge Parker noted that Mr Islam had admitted that some of his court documents had been ‘prepared using an artificial intelligence programme’.
The judge found that his motion showed a “use of legal language without any real understanding of the legal rules being invoked.”
Judge Parker noted that Mr Islam claimed he had apologized to one of the accusers and said he planned to study law.
Mr Islam urged the judge not to make an order under the Vexatious Proceedings Act as it would impact his ability to practice as a lawyer.
Ultimately, Judge Parker disagreed and banned Mr Islam from taking legal action in connection with the Maserati.
Mr Islame’s Maserati was later seized after the liquidation order in a manner he found ‘humiliating’, the judgment said (Mr Islame is pictured with former colleagues on the far left)
“One fundamental issue, which has not been raised at any stage in what I have heard from Mr Islam, is that the car that caused all these problems was not even his,” Judge Parker noted.
When Mr Islam was contacted for his response to the verdict, Daily Mail Australia said: ‘While I respect His Honor’s ruling, there are several details and complexities in this case that are unfortunately not fully captured in the verdict.’
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 damage my business and personal reputation.”
Mr Islam said the seizure of the Maserati was a stunt and that he had simply tried to convey to the court the impact the loss had had on his life.
“But no one heard my voice,” he said.
“I’ve worked my way from McDonalds to estate agency owner since working from the age of 17 after coming to Australia for a better life.
“But the NSW Supreme Court only listens to big lawyers.”
Curiously, Mr Islam then asked this publication to refer him to a lawyer as no one was willing to represent him.
“My wife and I cannot get a lawyer even if we arrange the financing,” he said.
“We are worse than the remnant that Bruce Lehman (sic) and Britanny (sic) Higgins left on the bench of Parliament because even he has been given counsel.”