Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann has been given extra time to file amended grounds of appeal, as he seeks to overturn the result of his failed defamation case against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson.
Mr Lehrmann drafted the original notice of appeal himself, after the Federal Court found, on the balance of probabilities, he had raped Brittany Higgins at Parliament House in 2019.
He has always denied the allegation, and a criminal trial in the ACT Supreme Court collapsed without a verdict due to juror misconduct.
In a hastily arranged case management hearing today, the Federal Court heard Mr Lehrmann missed the original deadline of last Thursday to file any amendments to the appeal.
His lawyer Zali Burrows argued Mr Lehrmann has struggled to recover $117,000 in court costs which he should have been exempt from, and which he now intends to use to pay senior barrister Guy Reynolds to finalise the amended appeal.
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the Notice of Appeal; drafter by Lehrmann? what a fool is the maverick defendant.
and now he's complaining about court costs? maybe he should have hired a lawyer to post his notice of appeal instead of wasting court time and staff efforts.
