Bruce Lehrmann has been granted an extension in which to appeal his failed defamation suit, as a court hears he will likely be liable to pay Channel Ten's legal fees.
Bruce Lehrmann will likely have to pay at least some of Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson's legal costs, as the former Liberal staffer weighs whether to appeal his unsuccessful defamation suit against them. Lehrmann's barrister David Helvadjian has requested further time in which an appeal notice must be delivered, on the basis fresh legal counsel were reviewing the likelihood of such an appeal succeeding.
Quill told media gathered outside the hearing the way defamation trials pick apart journalists' work is "divorced from reality". "I made it perfectly plain that what occurred in this case was that the respondents fell well short of a standard of reasonableness in the credulous way they went about reporting these allegations," Lee said.
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