Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann has dodged a $200,000 hit to his already cash-strapped pockets after a choose ordered his defamation attraction can proceed with out it.
Community Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson failed of their bid to get the funds paid into courtroom as safety within the occasion the 29-year-old loses a problem to his authorized loss.
On Wednesday, Federal Courtroom Justice Wendy Abraham declined to make the proposed orders.
The choose additionally allowed Lehrmann’s bid to remain earlier courtroom 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 residing on Centrelink advantages partially 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 courtroom.
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 stability of chances.
Lehrmann denies the declare and isn’t dealing with legal prices over the incident after his trial was aborted on account of juror misconduct.
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