Six years on, and the scandal that keeps on giving is delivering the goods yet again. And yet more Finding Out is heading Brittany Higgins’ way, as her lies catch up with her.
When Higgins sent the left-elite into fits of swooning with her attacks on the Morrison government and her former boss, then-Senator and Defence Minister Linda Reynolds in particular, she was lying through her teeth. Don’t take my word for it: just ask the courts. Justice Paul Tottle ruled that she made no fewer than 26 different “dishonest” and “objectively untrue and misleading” statements, as she trashed Reynolds.
And now that dishonesty is catching up with her.
Brittany Higgins has been ordered to pay the lion’s share of her former boss Linda Reynolds’s legal expenses in their blockbuster defamation trial that concluded last month, which Ms Reynolds’s lawyer said would exceed $1 million.
Justice Paul Tottle ruled in August that Ms Higgins had defamed Ms Reynolds in a series of social media posts, and today ruled that she must pay 80 per cent of her former employer’s legal costs.
His Honour certainly didn’t buy Higgins’ last-minute manoeuvring to try and wriggle out of accountability.
In July last year, four days before the defamation trial opened, Ms Higgins offered to settle the entire matter with a $200,000 payment towards Ms Reynolds’s legal fees, to be paid by her parents.
‘Sorry’ was apparently the hardest word. Let alone the admission that ‘I was wrong’.
The settlement, which was labelled “unreasonable” by Justice Tottle, was to have included a “statement of mutual regret” from both women and a payment of $10,000 to a Queensland women’s refuge […]
It stated that both women “agree to put these matter behind them and move on".
But Justice Tottle said the "offer did not provide the plaintiff with any vindication of her reputation”.
He said the statement of mutual regret “fell short of an apology by a substantial margin” and “would have conveyed the defendant maintained the truth of the defamatory statements made by her”.
Now, Higgins is finding out that the dildo of consequences rarely comes lubed.
Former senator Linda Reynolds has launched bankruptcy proceedings in the Federal Court against her ex-staffer Brittany Higgins as she tries to recover damages awarded to her for defamation.
In August Ms Higgins was ordered to pay Ms Reynolds $315,000 plus $26,000 in interest.
Then there’s the legal costs, of which Higgins must pay around $800,000.
Her husband, David Sharaz, is also having to bend over and spread ’em.
Brittany Higgins’s husband David Sharaz has been served bankruptcy papers by former Senator Linda Reynolds, as she tries to recover damages awarded to her by a Perth court for defamation.
Mr Sharaz, who opted not to defend the legal action, was ordered to pay $85,000, with Justice Tottle ruling both he and Ms Higgins were jointly liable for the bill.
Today Ms Reynolds confirmed Mr Sharaz had been served the bankruptcy papers […]
“Again, this is predictable conduct that I have unfortunately become accustomed to in the pursuit of justice.
“Mr Sharaz now has 21 days to pay the debt or I will proceed to apply to formally bankrupt him.”
All of which is some consolation for Australian taxpayers who were stiffed $2.3 million in a secretive compensation payout, courtesy of the Albanese government, whose 2022 election win owed no small part to Higgins’ and the left-media’s orchestrated, relentless attacks.
The tangled web of scandal unravel slowly, but unravel they will.
