The owner of Solicitors from Hell, the website that blacklists law firms and solicitors, has been accused by a High Court judge of abusing the process of the court.

In his judgment in the latest decided case against Rick Kordowski, published today, Mr Justice Tugendhat said that Kordowski ‘plainly has a grievance against solicitors’.

Tugendhat granted an injunction to Wiltshire firm Awdry Bailey and Douglas, and the firm’s family law head, Adrian Bressington, preventing publication of defamatory comments made against them on Kordowski’s website.

He also granted their application for final judgment and gave them permission to apply for an assessment of damages.

Around 15 libel cases involving Kordowski and Solicitors from Hell have now been filed. It is understood that this is the fifth lost by Kordowski, who has yet to win a case.

Tugendhat said: ‘In my judgment Mr Kordowski is abusing the process of the court, seeking to cause the claimants to incur costs which he says they have no prospect of recovering from himself.

‘Whether his motive is to punish them for not meeting his demands for money, or for some other reason, is immaterial. He plainly has a grievance against solicitors.’

Kordowski told the court that he had a public interest duty to publish the allegations, made by the ex-husband of one of Bressington’s former clients and published on 2 September 2010.

Kordowski also claimed the defences of fair comment and qualified privilege applied to the allegations.

Tugendhat dismissed the defences, and said that there was no public interest in the publication of the words complained of.