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.
Network Ten has told the Federal Court that Bruce Lehrmann should pay all of its legal costs of defending his failed defamation suit.
If you’re going to be for all women,you have to acknowledge when you f--- over other women.
The Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial is finally behind her,so what can one of TV’s highest-paid presenters have to look forward to now?
The court decision has made essential findings about what took place,but it is already being used to justify yet another hunt for targets.
A message Lisa Wilkinson sent to a rival TV program suggesting Bruce Lehrmann had breached legal confidentiality rules has been confirmed by Justice Michael Lee.
There is little doubt that lawyers do well in defamation cases. But you rarely find a plaintiff who,at the end of the trial,believes they made the right move in suing.
Bruce Lehrmann has gone from cause celebre to disgrace. Along the way he has managed to damage and hurt many lives and reputations.
Ten was largely vindicated in Monday’s ruling,but Justice Michael Lee was critical of the network’s “grossly improper and unjustifiable” conduct.
Bruce Lehrmann,Brittany Higgins and Lisa Wilkinson were all criticised in a defamation judgment that will be required reading for years to come.
It was an “omnishambles” with a highly unsatisfactory witness at its heart,the Federal Court judge said of Bruce Lehrmann’s unsuccessful defamation case.