Bruce Lehrmann gets extra time to appeal defamation trial loss as court hears of struggle to recover costs
by Caitlin Cassidy from World news | The Guardian on (#6QGYE)
Lehrmann's lawyer says he was exempt from $117,00 in court costs because he was on Centrelink'
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Bruce Lehrmann has been given extra time to refile the grounds of his appeal against his defamation trial loss to Network Ten and presenter Lisa Wilkinson, after he missed court-set deadlines.
In a hastily arranged hearing at the federal court in Sydney on Friday, Justice Wendy Abraham said the former Liberal staffer was in breach of court orders for failing to file his updated appeal before the due date on 29 August.
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