Community Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson failed of their bid to get the funds paid into court docket as safety within the occasion the 29-year-old loses a problem to his devastating authorized loss.
The choose additionally allowed Lehrmann’s bid to remain earlier court docket orders that he pay $2 million in authorized prices to Ten for his or her prices of defending the continuing.
He may also be on the hook for Wilkinson’s authorized prices, that are presently unknown.
Earlier in October, Justice Abraham heard that Lehrmann was dwelling on Centrelink advantages partly as a result of the broadcaster contributed to his picture as a rapist.
“They’re one of many contributors as to why he is just about unemployable,” his lawyer Zali Burrows informed the court docket.
Ten has already served a chapter discover on Lehrmann however agreed to not take any additional steps till the attraction is resolved.
The 29-year-old sued over a February 2021 report on The Undertaking interviewing Brittany Higgins about her allegations she was sexually assaulted in Parliament Home in March 2019.
In April, Justice Michael Lee dominated that Lehrmann sexually assaulted Higgins in Parliament Home based mostly on the steadiness of possibilities.
Lehrmann denies the declare and isn’t going through legal costs over the incident after his trial was aborted because of juror misconduct.
Ten’s barrister Matt Collins KC pushed for the $200,000 cost, saying it was not within the public curiosity to permit the attraction.
Wilkinson’s barrister Sue Chrysanthou SC mentioned Lehrmann had sued by alternative after escaping a legal conviction or acquittal.
“His impecuniosity didn’t deprive him of getting his day in court docket and he is had it,” she mentioned.
“Why ought to he get one other?”
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