Bruce Lehrmann has become swept up in a row with his former lawyers after he says they paid Network Ten $117,000 from a trust account holding money from previous cases.
Bruce Lehrmann entangled in row with former lawyers after he says they paid $117,000 to Network Ten for defamation case costs
In his appeal, Lehrmann says he was denied procedural fairness and claimed Justice Michael Lee should not have made his ruling as he failed to properly apply the ‘Briginshaw principle’ – which calls for higher standards in cases with serious allegations. Lehrmann’s lawyer has not filed evidence for the payment or an amended notice of appeal, missing last Thursday’s deadline.
Lehrmann’s current lawyer Zali Burrows raised this issue in a case management hearing at Federal Court on Friday morning, claiming it breached her client's conditional costs agreement with his former representatives. “Now, the issue now is that there was about $117,000, which was paid for Ten’s costs out of the trust account funds, which we say were not payable on construction of the conditional costs agreement and there were a lot of moneys paid in hearing allocation fees and filing fees to which my client didn’t have to pay at the time because he was on Centrelink.”
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