Australia, June 27 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on May 27:

1. The plaintiff, who is self-represented, commenced these proceedings against the defendant with the filing of a statement of claim on 15 November 2024. On 17 March 2025, the defendant filed a notice of motion requesting that the proceedings be struck out.

2. In the statement of claim the "Type of Claim" is described in this way:

"Compensation for economic loss, whole person impairment (including pain/suffering), and defamation caused by employer's (and subsequent worker's compensation entities) negligence."

3. The plaintiff states the "Requested Outcome" of her litigation to be as follows:

"1) Matter investigated for corruption and criminal activity.

2) $15 000 000.

3) Prior to investigation of corruption/criminal activity - I want to be put through a highly advanced self-defence course and provided with personal protection (police grade pepper spray/guard dog etc).

4) Any associated legal costs from this point forward to be paid by the defendant."

4. Under the heading "Pleadings", the plaintiff gives a detailed history of complaints against the defendant (by whom she was employed), against two insurance companies (QBE Insurance and Hanover Insurance), against a number of legal firms, against the New South Wales Legal Services Commissioner and against the Police Force.

5. Under "Particulars" the plaintiff sets out a timeline of her complaints. In short, she commenced working for the defendant in December 2019. I understand she was a registered nurse. She says she was unfairly treated by senior staff which included her not being able to progress to higher positions such as a nurse unit manager. She was bullied and effectively ignored when she tried to agitate her many concerns. She was persistently mismanaged. In addition, unfair disciplinary action was taken against her. As a result of the wrongful treatment she endured, she suffered psychological injury.

6. Notwithstanding the range of persons and entities who are the subject of complaints, the defendant is the only defendant. The defendant has treated the proceedings as a workers compensation claim, in particular seeking common law damages. This is because the plaintiff did make such a claim in 2021 which was followed by a number of dispute notices pursuant to the Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998 (NSW) (the WIM Act). On 18 October 2023, the plaintiff's then solicitors, Turner Freeman Lawyers, made a claim for lump sum compensation for a work-related injury. Again, there was dispute, in particular concerning the plaintiff's whole person impairment. In order to receive damages, she needed a whole person impairment of 15% or more (s 151H of the Workers Compensation Act 1987 (NSW) (the WC Act)).

*Rest of the document can be viewed at: (https://www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/1971019ad2fb6ae675bc4870)

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