Brittany Higgins ordered to pay 80% of Linda Reynolds’ legal costs after defamation ruling | Defamation law (Australia)

Brittany Higgins was ordered to pay 80% of his former boss Linda Reynold from high -profile slander struggles.

Last month, Paul Tottle, the Judge of the Western Australian Supreme Court, decided that the former Minister of Defense Minister David Sharaz, a partner of Higgins, was damaged by the social media mission of 2022 and an Instagram story published by Higgins in July 2023.

The decision pointed out that Higgins has been raped by a former colleague Bruce Lehrmann in the Parliamentary Building in a long legal war arising from the decision to open up to the public with allegations that it was raped in the suit of a ministry.

On Tuesday, the judge decided that Higgins had to pay most of Reynolds’ legal costs. The total amount is not known, but is expected to be hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Last week, Reynolds, who retired from the federal parliament earlier this year, was damaged by $ 315,000 and received an interest of $ 26,000 from the slander case.

The decision announced that Reynolds had proposed to solve the case in July last year if Reynolds agreed to make a $ 200,000 payment for legal wages.

The decision also came more than a year after a federal court judge in the insult case for Higgins’ decision for sexual assault against Lehrmann’s Network Ten and High Profile journalist Lisa Wilkinson.

Lehrmann rejected the allegations of rape and claimed that he was not guilty in the criminal case at the Australian Başkent Region Supreme Court, which was canceled. Prosecutors were not re -tried for concerns about Higgins’s mental health.

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