Bruce Lehrmann is anticipated to face a multimillion-dollar authorized invoice when a decide guidelines on who can pay for the majority of his doomed defamation case in opposition to Ten.
In April, the ex-Liberal staffer suffered a large authorized loss after the Federal Court docket discovered an allegation that he raped Brittany Higgins in a Parliament Home workplace in March 2019 was most definitely true.
The 28-year-old had sued for defamation over a February 2021 report on The Challenge by which journalist Lisa Wilkinson interviewed Higgins over the rape allegation.
Because the findings in opposition to Lehrmann, the events have been in dispute over the authorized prices and who ought to foot what is anticipated to quantity to a sizeable authorized invoice for the long-running and high-profile case.
Justice Michael Lee will resolve the difficulty right this moment, when Lehrmann is anticipated to be ordered to pay at the very least a few of Ten and Wilkinson’s prices.
Earlier within the week, the court docket heard he had no monetary backers and that his attorneys had agreed they didn’t have to be paid if he misplaced the case.
Ten can be liable to pay Wilkinson for at the very least a portion of the authorized prices she incurred for retaining her personal attorneys.
The community can then declare this again in opposition to Lehrmann as a part of its personal bills.
Nonetheless, a referee can be appointed to look at whether or not the journalist might have prevented pointless prices in the way in which she ran her case.
Lehrmann has till Could 31 to attraction the defamation case discovering.
