“…The existence theory of hemivariational inequalities (HVIs) and of more abstract topologically (in the sense of Brézis [10]) pseudomonotone VIs, also in the semicoercive case is well documented in the literature. Without claim of completeness we can cite [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28] in chronological order While there are studies of numerical solution methods for coercive HVIs, see the book [29] of Haslinger, Miettinen, and Panagiotopoulos and also the more recent paper [30], and there are works on the numerical treatment of semicoercive monotone VIs, see the book of Kaplan and Tichatschke [31] and the papers [32,33,34,35,36,37,38], to the best of the authors' knowledge, efficient methods for the numerical solution of semicoercive HVIs supported by rigorous mathematical analysis are missing. It is the purpose of the present paper to initiate work in this direction.…”