Proceedings seeking damages for unlawful imprisonment are frivolous and vexatious

High Court exercises its discretion and strikes out proceedings to recover damages for breach of constitutional rights, including the right to liberty, arising out of alleged unlawful imprisonment at a prison, on the grounds that: (a) there is no statutory right to trial by jury, and nor is the Court vested with a jurisdiction in equity to grant or direct a trial by jury for violation of constitutional rights; and (b) the proceedings were frivolous and vexatious, disclosed no cause of action and were bound to fail in circumstances whereby the plaintiff cannot take advantage of or rely upon a finding of unconstitutionality in proceedings brought subsequently, at the suit of another litigant, to challenge the lawfulness of his detention when he did not contest the proceedings nor appeal his imprisonment.