Federal Court judge Michael Lee says he will force Bruce Lehrmann to pay some of Network Ten’s millions of dollars in legal costs after the former Liberal staffer’s disastrous defamation defeat – but has granted him extra time to lodge an appeal.
On April 15, Justice Lee delivered a blockbuster, 130,000-word decision in favour of Ten. Mr Lehrmann had sued Ten and its former star presenter Lisa Wilkinson over a February 2021 episode of The Project that interviewed Brittany Higgins about her then-alleged rape in a Parliament House office.
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