. It will be interesting to see the scale of damages, if the case goes Reynolds way. The Lehrmann defamation action cost channel 10 $5 million to defend an action which the judge in his remarks said would have resulted in a $20k payment to Lehrmann had the case gone his way. Rather than allowing the court system to be used as a vehicle for enriching lawyers judges really should strike out much of this triviality as unworthy of the court's time on the grounds that the stakes don't warrant the expense incurred. Someone saying something nasty about someone else during a catfight belongs at best in a small claims tribunal.
