High-profile presenter Lisa Wilkinson is locked in a fresh fight with Ten over her million-dollar legal costs of defending Bruce Lehrmann’s failed defamation suit.
High-profile presenter Lisa Wilkinson is locked in a fresh fight with Ten over her million-dollar legal costs of defending Bruce Lehrmann’s failed defamation suit, after the network suggested it should not be ordered to foot the bill for all the work performed by her lawyers.when Federal Court Justice Michael Lee ruled it was reasonable for her to brief a separate team of lawyers, headed by Sydney defamation silk Sue Chrysanthou, SC, instead of being represented by Ten’s team.
However, they noted that Wilkinson had “separate interests” from the network in relation to a relatively small range of issues in the defamation case, including Lehrmann’s claim for aggravated damages relating to her Logies acceptance speech in 2022 and the defence of qualified privilege. However, in submissions filed on Monday and released publicly on Wednesday, Wilkinson’s barristers, Michael Elliott and Daniel Klineberg, said Ten’s submissions “impermissibly seek to reagitate” issues that had already been resolved during the earlier fight on costs.
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