Bruce Lehrmann misplaced his blockbuster defamation trial within the Federal Court docket on April 15 when Justice Michael Lee discovered on the civil commonplace that he had raped Brittany Higgins inside Parliament Home within the early hours of March 23, 2019.
The discovering was a blow for Lehrmann who launched the defamation action in a bid to clear his identify.
Lehramnn hasn’t had a job since early 2021 when Ms Higgins first went public together with her rape claims towards him in interview with Lisa Wilkinson on Community Ten program The Mission.
However, because the loser of the trial, he’ll now be anticipated to cowl his opponent’s authorized charges.
Wilkinson’s husband Peter FitzSimons charged Lehrmann $4,616 as a result of he was requested to produce produce paperwork referring to Ms Higgins’ $325,000 book deal with Penguin Random House forward of the trial.
Mr FitzSimon brokered her deal in a three-way public sale between two different main publishers in early 2021.
Final week, Justice Lee ordered that Lehrmann pay the total quantity to Mr FitzSimons.
Wilkinson’s barrister Sue Chrysanthou SC costs $8000 a day and her whole invoice was price greater than $700,000 in October – two months earlier than the precise month-long defamation listening to.
Since then, Ms Chrysanthou attended courtroom for nearly day by day of the month-long listening to in December. Her prices are seemingly now price greater than $1million.
There’s additionally the prices of solicitors on each side, and the charges for Community Ten’s barrister Matthew Collins KC.
The price of the entire case is price an estimated $10million.
