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“If such a mode of description were permitted, one could not stop the next deponent describing themselves in the opening of an affidavit as a ‘Guardian reader’ or the one after that as a ‘keen golfer,'” Humphreys wrote in his judgment.

“It is hard to know which the applicant’s affidavit trivialises more: religion or court procedure,” he added.

The court documents show that the plaintiff’s claim to be a Disciple of Jesus is just the latest in a series of time-wasting stunts spanning at least two years.

In the recent case, the plaintiff — who listed his name as “Piotr/Peter Nowak” — was appealing a decision made in a previous lawsuit involving Ireland’s Residential Tenancies Board.

It is hard to know which the applicant’s affidavit trivialises more, religion or court procedure

After a rent increase in October 2014, a Tenancies Tribunal ruled that the increase was legal, and that Nowak would have to pay his landlord. Nowak then sued the Tribunal, and filed a complaint with the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation, claiming that the Tribunal should not have adjourned a hearing after the landlord’s lawyer said he had to leave because of a family emergency.

The Garda Bureau typically investigates terrorist financing, money laundering, and counterfeiting, not small rent disputes between tenants and landlords.

The Tribunal said that Nowak had appealed every decision of the court as a “tactic to delay and frustrate the proceedings.” Since then, the High Court has called the fraud complaint “a huge overreaction and certainly not an arguable basis to quash the decision.”

Humphreys dismissed the appeal, and said that the court should consider limiting the self-proclaimed Disciple of Jesus from future “frivolous applications.”