Network Ten questions the reasonableness of Wilkinson’s legal costs in the Lehrmann defamation case sparked by The Project.
Court documents have surfaced revealing further details of a dispute over legal costs.
Lisa Wilkinson has reportedly declined to provide detailed invoices for her high-profile legal team’s expenses, which have amounted to an astonishing $700,000 in less than eight months.
The dispute centres around Wilkinson’s claim against her employer, Network Ten, alleging that the network is not fulfilling its obligation to indemnify her in the defamation suit initiated by Bruce Lehrmann. This suit emerged following Wilkinson’s interview with Brittany Higgins on The Project in 2021, where Higgins accused Lehrmann of raping her in Parliament House, though he was not explicitly named as the assailant in the interview.
In February, Wilkinson engaged the services of renowned defamation barrister Sue Chrysanthou SC and Anthony Jefferies, a partner at Gillis Delaney Lawyers. This move was a deviation from Network Ten’s preferred legal firm, Thomson Geer. Wilkinson is contesting Network Ten’s refusal to cover two significant invoices for her legal representation — $353,538.88 in May and $370,017.00 in September.
Network Ten has expressed its dissatisfaction with Wilkinson’s decision to seek separate legal counsel, criticizing the costs as “not reasonably incurred.” The network contends, “(Network Ten) maintains its view that it is not necessary or reasonable for the plaintiff to be separately represented in the proceeding, such that the costs incurred by reason of that decision are not reasonably incurred.”
Contrastingly, Wilkinson argues that the network should bear these costs as they arise. However, Network Ten insists that payment should be a lump sum at the case’s conclusion, contingent on the reasonableness of the expenses. The network further claims a lack of a “complete record” of Chrysanthou’s invoices and criticizes the insufficient specificity in the billing details.
Notably, in a letter dated June 21, Network Ten’s legal team expressed preliminary doubts over the reasonableness of legal costs exceeding $375,000, given the limited progress in the case at that time. The letter stated,
“Substantial work undertaken on behalf of the plaintiff was unnecessarily duplicative of the defendant’s work in defending the proceeding.”
The latest hearing in the NSW Supreme Court revealed plans by Network Ten to transfer the case to the Federal Court, to be presided over by Justice Michael Lee, who is also handling Lehrmann’s defamation case against the network. The case is set to resume in court this Thursday.
SOURCE: The Australian
Now we know where there was smoke, there was fire 🔥
✈️ Pull up terrain warning 💦
Lisa got plenty money
Lock this woman up
David Ryan Why?
TV Blackboxcause that’s where she belongs with her idiot husband
She can pay
Make her pay such a smart arse lier
She was warned not to discuss Bruce Lehman by channel ten lawyers and she went against advice she should pay her own court costs .
Christine May I hope Bruce sends her broke .
Take her to the cleaners
Move on with this 💩
She was the one enjoying all of the Glory
Pay up Lisa.
Your big mouth got you to this situation.
You may think before you start next time.🤔
Hope she gets nothing
Came out of her mouth, bad luck
She thinks she is special.
Karma is a bitch.
Loess get a real job ?
Don’t worry she won’t win
Her legal bill by the time it’s finished Will be at least $1millon .
Lisa thought she is above the law that the rest of us have to abide by.
She should keep her mouth shut I don’t give a 💩 what she thinks 😡
🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 SHE’S BLOODY EVIL,,
COMPLETE F,,,UK WIT,,
She is just trash
Who cares Lisa, you reap what you sow!
Lawyers the winners here
She needs to pay for it all. She is just trash
Can’t blame channel 10 for what comes out of this woman’s mouth I only hope that her lawyer has big bag to put all the money in as I hope it costs her a fortune
Danny Weinert I agree
Deserves everything she gets😡
She’s a disgrace
Jail her, she needs to learn something not just mouthing off
I can’t stand her or her husband, I hope Karma bites her on the backside….
Val Guy it’s giving it a good go.
Val Guy it always does. May have her cash but i bet the demons at night ger her in her head. End of day these people just ruin society and better off locked in jail as thye dont deserve to walk the streets.
Go away, far away
Was she not living the life overseas holidays not that long ago and now you can suffer
Sap
Surely the pirate will chip in, he’s used to being unpopular and at odds with most of society. Great pair 🫣
She should pay dearly for what she has done and got away with it.
She needs to learn to shut he big mouth
This bitch NEEDS TO PAY
Should be in jail the smart arse moron
Put this piece of work with the mean bitches
She only wants freebies…and expects everyone else to pay for her…🥴🥴🥴
She is a nobody now
Her mouth got her into this mess so she should pay for her own legal costs.
Amazing she can say what she likes and have someone else foot the bill like the idiots on the ABC where we taxpayers end up paying!!
How Quaint just watch them turn on each other like a pack of dogs
Jail her….
Graham Johns Why?
TV Blackbox because she is a trouble making liar
Last time I saw a mouth like that it had a hook in
More than $700,000 in legal fees ! Jeez . What did they do for that sort of money !
Another lying parasite on TV. Just like the woman hating bastard at Channel Seven in Melbourne. Chief newsreader Peter Mitchell.
Get her pic off ere disgusting thing
Lock her up
The filthy witch paid by Albo and the mean girls !!
KARMA 🙏💋🤪🎉🥳
Strate pass go don’t collect two hundred dollars
She said it.
She pays.
It’s not that hard is it….!!?
Get her off the screen!! She is the biggest taker ever !!
Tell that b*^”h to pay her own bill
Mutt
Parasites!
How come she is back I thought she went to the Amazon in South America
Why should ten pay
Big mouth you and your big mouth husband can pick your own tab.
Let Lisa pay her own way .
Suffer
🤡
Needs the big house. No room with a view though. She was quick to point the finger and was told not to. Her doing and hers alone. Liked the lime light though got an award 🥇 for it. Typical woke not my fault
Channel 9 are so glad she walked out looking for more money they must pop champaign every day at lunch to celebrate their good fortune…!
Scott Abela instant improvement to the network.
I would think so, but can’t stand Karl so never watch it.. ha ha..
Scott Abela they are mostly all the same, I do agree with you on Karl too.
Parasite.
What a FAKE person actually what a FAKE Couple her & bandanna boy are !
Bubble bubble toil and trouble . When is the next coven being held ….
She is a low life scum why when outof her way to destroy the liberal party by using Higgins as a scape goat and should be in jail
Hope the scrag gets what she deserves and ends up broke
Wow hope the old skank goes Broke
She is so fake it’s sickening
She should pay
Her mouth. Her costs for being a big mouth
She doesn’t deserve anything
She is literally as walking disaster.. a trait of the hard lefties..
So ch10 are hangin her out to dry “you’re on your own sunshine”
who would have expected that. Obviously she and the the bandit didn’t
Lisa hope you learn from this keep your mouth SHUT ,you made him Guilty before he had a fair trial in court
A toxic peace of excrement
Pay for your own legal cost, maybe you will think twice before presuming one’s guilt! We have courts for that!
How come the bandanna man isn’t being sued?
Sad was a wonderful person. Now we all think she is a 🤡 including me.
Not so hot now are you Lisa….
I think you problems are going to get bigger….after the ABC paid an unknown amount to Mr Leaman
meanwhile—she is still on channel ten—payroll….??
Why doesn’t she just disappear?
This women is an absolute kourva
Lisa Wilkinson can easy afford seven hundred thousand for declamation law suit its bad to say channel 1o has to front her cost without putting brain in to gear about what she publicly came out and said at home she could say but not outside many people have suffered saying the wrong thing outside their home
What a fool
Appearing in court everyday in new expensive clothes
why did lisa help the labor party and will labor now pay lisa like they paid Brittany .
The eyes give away the internal hatred.
Who cares she not worth even talking about.Should be in jail. Low life .
Shit for brains
She could pass as Brittany Higgins mum
If miss Higgins is going to testify in this court case of defamation , then why wasn’t there a retrial after the first trial was dismissed over the juror bring stuff into the jurors room , she well enough to do it here , then she’s well enough to be put on the stand and testify on the rape case then , and as far as this journalist trash goes hope she has to pay the full amount for her big mouth
Disgusting toxic left wing woke nutjob
Pay your lawyers out of your pocket.
Send her broke.
Lock her up.
Get it out of our sight.
She should pay her own legal bills, it was her mouth that caused the problem
Should be in jail. Hi ….and zip her mouth
why is this filth on the screen. Get her away from tv and in jail where she belongs;
She And her hubby, are obnoxious. Rude self centred pair..
I have a feeling her media career is finished
Make her pay the bill she caused all this
🐖💩
Make her Pay
& she’s 10’s biggest mistake!
Isnt her bank account as big as its mouth and opinion?? 🤔
She should be using her logie as a door stop at silverwater.
Why?