Brittany Higgins has been ordered to pay most of Linda Reynolds’ legal costs after losing the epic defamation case brought by her former boss, with court documents revealing she made a $200,000 settlement offer.

WA Supreme Court judge Paul Tottle last month found the former Liberal senator’s ex-junior media adviser defamed her on three occasions in a series of social media posts in 2022 and 2023.

In them, Ms Higgins referred to being “bullied” and refusing to “stay silent”, alleging Ms Reynolds mishandled her claim she was raped by colleague Bruce Lehrmann at Parliament House in 2019.

After a long, bitter and costly trial a year ago, Justice Tottle awarded Ms Reynolds $315,000 in damages plus $26,109 in interest.

And on Tuesday, he ordered Ms Higgins pay 80 per cent of the plaintiff’s

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