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In submissions to the federal court, released today, Network Ten has argued Bruce Lehrmann should pay all of the network’s legal fees, known as indemnity costs, and estimated to be $8m. The former Liberal staffer lost the defamation case he brought against Ten and Lisa Wilkinson, with the court finding that on the balance of probabilities Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins on a minister’s couch in Parliament House in 2019.
