A “vexatious litigator” used Jim Davidson’s name to bring a case against a McDonald’s franchisee after being banned from doing so in his own name, an employment tribunal has heard.
A judge has now ordered David Taheri — who had brought dozens of bogus discrimination claims against companies and attempted to evade a litigation ban by posing as the comedian — to pay thousands of pounds, while castigating him for behaving “abusively and unreasonably”.
Taheri, 63, used the alias in a bid to duck an earlier ruling designed to stop him from repeatedly suing companies.
He “habitually” lodged unfounded discrimination claims against companies that had refused to offer him a job, attempting to pressure them into low-value payouts, known as “nuisance settlements”, over allegations that
