Channel Ten demanded Bruce Lehrmann cough up $200,000 – and he hit them with an sudden response

Community Ten has demanded Bruce Lehrmann cough up a $200,000 safety cost earlier than his defamation enchantment can happen – however he has refused to pay.

In a submitting within the Federal Courtroom on Friday, the TV community argued that Justice Michael Lee’s choice in Lehrmann’s lawsuit towards Ten and The Challenge needs to be upheld.

Lehrmann had sued the community and TV host Lisa Wilkinson over an episode of The Challenge in 2021, throughout which his former colleague Brittany Higgins publicly alleged that he raped her in Parliament Home in 2019.

However in April, Justice Lee discovered on a steadiness of possibilities that Lehrmann had raped Ms Higgins in a lot the way in which she described within the interview with Wilkinson – which means Ten and Wilkinson gained the case on its main fact defence. 

They misplaced the secondary certified privilege defence, which suggests they didn’t act pretty or fairly earlier than the story went to air or within the aftermath.

Lehrmann has filed an enchantment to overturn the damning findings towards him, prompting the TV station to ask him to pay the safety sum.

He had already been hit with a $2million invoice to cowl its prices for the defamation case in December.

There was doubt as as to if he may afford the invoice. He didn’t have a financier funding the case, his solicitors labored on a no-win no-fee foundation, and he’ll signify himself within the enchantment.

Community Ten is believed to have made the demand to Lehrmann through e-mail. 

Lehrmann responded to Ten: ‘I’m firmly of the view that my enchantment grounds have important authorized advantage and are of a excessive public curiosity.

‘I decline your request.’

Community Ten is anticipated to make a proper software for the safety cost in courtroom. 

Lisa Wilkinson is pictured outdoors the Federal Courtroom in February. She has requested the courtroom to overturn judgements towards her

Brittany Higgins (pictured) first stated she was raped by a former colleague throughout a tv interview with Lisa Wilkinson in 2021

In his enchantment, Lehrmann requested for a brand new decide to set Justice Lee’s choice apart and enter a judgement in his favour, and for Ten and Wilkinson to pay for the first proceedings and the enchantment.

4 grounds for enchantment have been recognized within the discover, together with that Justice Lee denied Lehrmann procedural equity, and findings in relation to the reality defence had been opposite to the proof.

Lisa Wilkinson filed a discover of competition earlier this week, arguing that the Full Courtroom ought to uphold her defence of certified privilege.