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Bruce Lehrmann ordered to largely pay indemnity costs

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In the saga that never ends, the Honourable Justice Lee handed down his costs judgment after a marathon defamation trial where Bruce Lehrmann  lost his defamation claim. His Federal Court of Australia claim was dismissed, because, on the balance of probabilities, it was found that he had raped Brittany Higgins. But the qualified privilege defence failed.

In the words of Justice Lee:

“The result is best characterised as the respondents overcoming a misconceived claim in relation to a broadcast because they were able to prove at trial the substantial truth of what the contemporaneous material demonstrates they considered to be the less substantial allegation made in the broadcast.”

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