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It would be unfair to require an employer and two HR professionals to defend an employee's "incomprehensible" adverse action claim, the Federal Circuit Court has ruled.

In his general protections claim, the clinical practice supervisor sought pecuniary penalties and damages against his employer, Yourtown Pty Ltd, its head of people and culture, a former employment relations manager, and a contracted solicitor.

His original statement of claim ran for 211 pages, and two subsequent affidavits totalled 191 pages, with 260 pages of annexures.

The employer and HR managers first sought to have his statement of claim struck out on the basis it was "incomprehensible", but they later applied for his case to be dismissed entirely...