Extremely serious allegations - Higgins payout, page-98

by LABOR forbidding her getting LEGAL FEES paid

I think Reynolds was told not to take part in mediation and to keep her mouth shut in exchange for having her legal fees paid by taxpayers.
Are you saying she had to pay her own legal fees?
Her statement as reported when she said she was preparing to submit the handling of the compensation claim against her, Senator Cash and the Commonwealth to the new anti corruption commission indicates that taxpayers footed the legal bill.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jun/07/linda-reynolds-may-take-governments-brittany-higgins-payout-to-anti-corruption-commission

Reynolds, who was given taxpayer-funded legal assistance for her defence on Higgins’ civil claim, said the attorney general had told her not to make public comment or attend mediation sessions.

“I was initially granted legal assistance to defend the civil claim made by Ms Higgins against me (as well as Senator Cash and the Commonwealth) but, on 6 December 2022, I was advised that the Commonwealth has a discretion to control the conduct of my defence and that the Attorney-General had decided to exercise that discretion,” Reynolds’ statement read.

“The result of this was that the Attorney-General did not want me to attend the mediation or make any public comments about the mediation or the civil claim made by Ms Higgins.
”Reynolds went on to claim Dreyfus, the finance minister, Katy Gallagher, and the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, had a “potential conflict of interest” based on their previous public statements about the matter.