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Woman sues Woolworths for $1.3million after claiming she slipped over on a SHALLOT ... and you won’t believe what the judge says!

He was not happy! - by Amy Sinclair
  • 09 Apr 2019

A Queensland shopper who sued Woolworths for $1.3 million after claiming that she’d slipped over on a shallot has lost her case, with the judge making a series of damning comments against the woman. 

Olga Day, 55, had said that she’d been left permanently incapacitated after the slipping incident - which she claimed happened when she was distracted by a promotion for laxatives.

But in handing down his findings today, the Courier Mail reports that Supreme Court Justice Peter Davis found against the woman on the basis that she refused to let doctors, acting for Woolworths, examine her.

‘She chose not to take up that last chance and that decision effectively concluded the proceedings,’ Justice Davis said.

The judge further ordered Ms Day to pay Woolworths legal costs - and those of a product demonstration company which she’d also sued.

Justice Davis said in his reasons, as revealed in the Courier Mail, that the woman’s conduct had been ‘poor’ and she ‘has a history of making unfounded allegations against judges and unsuccessful applications seeking orders against legal practitioners acting against her’.

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The woman sued for $1.3 million after claiming she'd slipped over on a shallot.

Image: Getty

It was the final chapter in a court case that had seen its share of dramatic moments. Not only had the woman attempted to have the judge thrown from the case, she also asked that two barristers acting for Woolworths be banned from acting for the supermarket. 

The judge has reportedly slammed her for being ‘belligerent’ and ‘mischievous’ and making an “unjustified attack” on other lawyers connected to the case.

Ms Day claimed the incident took place at the Woolworths store in Springfield, Queensland, on December 18, 2014, while shopping with her husband.

She said she’s been left ‘permanently incapacitated from returning to any paid employment’ as a result and required constant care after suffering injuries to her lower back, knee, ankle as well as an aggravation of post traumatic stress disorder.

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