Brittany Higgins ordered to pay 80% of Linda Reynolds’ legal costs after defamation ruling
by Tom McIlroy chief political correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6ZX0G)
Total amount former Liberal staffer has been ordered to pay is not known but is expected to be in the order of hundreds of thousands of dollars
Brittany Higgins has been ordered to pay 80% of her former boss Linda Reynold's legal costs from their high-profile defamation fight.
Last month, Western Australian supreme court judge Paul Tottle ruled the former defence minister's reputation was damaged by a 2022 social media post from Higgins' partner David Sharaz, which Higgins responded to, and an Instagram story published by Higgins in July 2023.
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