Scientist Erika Vicharra launches $100m lawsuit against Prince of Wales Hospital

A scientist has launched a $100 million claim against Prince of Wales Hospital. read what the judge hearing the case thought about her case.

A scientist has launched a $100 million lawsuit against Sydney’s Prince of Wales Hospital claiming she was sexually harassed and was vilified because of her gender.

But the judge hearing the case has given the woman one more chance to draft her legal documents outlining her case after her first attempt was rejected because it was “incoherent”.

Health scientist Erika Judith Vicharra launched the monster lawsuit against the hospital and five other people in the NSW Supreme Court in September 2022.

In her statement of claim filed with the court, Ms Vicharra said there was a “strong sexual harassment in the workplace” and that there was “vilification against my gender”.

She also stated that “I have been discriminated at the workplace because of my health issues” and had experienced “heavy harassment” by certain doctors.

A scientist has launched a $100 million lawsuit against Sydney’s Prince of Wales Hospital. Picture: AAP Image/James Gourley

However, in hearing the case on Tuesday, Justice Nicholas Chen said the case was “far more extensive” than the “short statement” that outlined Ms Vicharra’s grievances.

But the judge told the court Ms Vicharra’s submissions were “otherwise unintelligible” and that her statement of claim “is not easy to follow”.

“The paragraphs are not numbered; the pleading makes reference to next to no dates; nor is there contained within it a coherent timeline,” Justice Chen told the court. “To attempt to summarise the “claim” – what is alleged – would be difficult, if not impossible.”

In relation to one of the people Ms Vicharra is suing, she wrote that he “... jumped into my brain together with her ex-wife [the fourth defendant] with the intention to kill my brain this miserable man…”

Ms Vicharra said a female she was suing was a “despicable woman” who “assaulted my mind” and “menaced to myself” with a “cut of my brain”

“She herself sent spiritual beliefs to cut my brain which was left with haematoma and bleeding,” the statement of claim said.

Ms Vicharra wrote in the documents that Prince of Wales Hospital was “horrendous” and that “strong sexual harassment happened at the workplace.”

Justice Chen ordered the statement of claim be struck out because it did not “coherently, properly or meaningfully plead the material facts relied upon, or properly or meaningfully set out the legal claims…”

However, the judge did not grant the hospital’s request to have the entire case thrown out and gave Ms Vicharra another chance to submit her case.

“Although I tend to doubt this, I cannot exclude the possibility that there is a claim that is capable of being advanced by the plaintiff,” Justice Chen told the court.

He also told the court that NSW laws allowed Ms Vicharra to file further proceedings even if he dismissed the case.

The matter will return to court on June 1.