In Britain there’s the concept of a ‘vexatious litigant’ a person or other entity who makes frivolous legal actions for purposes other than seeking redress for

In Britain there’s the concept of a ‘vexatious litigant’ a person or other entity who makes frivolous legal actions for purposes other than seeking redress for a wrong that has been done to them. You can be put on a register which makes it much harder to bring legal actions in future. There is a broad civil law legal principle that damages paid to you should put you back to where you started before the bad thing happened. So you can’t take out a legal action to get revenge on someone or to frighten them. This is also why we don’t have punitive damages here.