Lisa Wilkinson’s a success defence of Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation case got here at a value, with the important journalist spending as much as $8000 a date on her supremacy silk.
The Federal Court docket was once informed that former The Challenge megastar Wilkinson spent simply over $1.8 million in protecting the case and was once hoping to foist the immense quantity of the sum on Lehrmann nearest his impressive loss.
Retainer promises the journalist had with important silk Sue Chrysanthou SC and her teenage, Barry Dean, confirmed the senior barrister charged $8000 for every complete date of the long-running defamation trial.
Ms Chrysanthou additionally had a minimal fee of $4000 if the date in courtroom wrapped up ahead of lunch, paperwork discharged on Thursday confirmed.
Shorter courtroom appearances had been billed at $800.
Mr Dean charged $3500 for every date of the trial and $350 for short courtroom appearances.
Wilkinson additionally retained Gillis Delaney as her solicitors and so they charged hourly charges of as much as $750 if a spouse was once required to do paintings on her case.
The courtroom printed the paperwork because the events figure out who will undergo what percentage of prices within the defamation case, which Lehrmann misplaced in April.
In one of the extremely expected judgments in fresh historical past, Justice Michael Lee discovered the 28-year-old had now not been defamed by means of a Community Ten document detailing Brittany Higgins’ rape allegations.
The pass judgement on discovered the allegations that Lehrmann sexually assaulted her in a Parliament Area workplace had been true at the steadiness of possibilities.
Ms Higgins was once interviewed by means of Wilkinson for an episode of The Challenge that aired in February 2021.
She informed Ten that she were raped by means of Lehrmann within the workplace in their then-boss, Senator Linda Reynolds, in March 2019, a declare he has all the time denied.
In Would possibly, Justice Lee ordered Lehrmann to pay the criminal expenses of Ten and Wilkinson on an indemnity foundation, which is upper than habitual prices.
The pass judgement on discovered the previous Kind staffer had introduced the case on a fraudelant foundation and had lied to police and the jury all over his legal trial which was once in the end isolated because of juror misconduct.
Week Wilkinson is looking for $1.8 million in prices, it’s not but recognized how a lot Ten’s criminal bills shall be.
Ten will shield any prices of Wilkinson’s which might be deemed cheap and can after cross that invoice directly to Lehrmann.
On Monday, Justice Lee famous there generally is a “limited prospect” that the ex-political staffer would be capable to pay again those quantities.
Lehrmann has till Friday to enchantment the findings towards him.
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