Brittany Higgins has filed appeals against court decisions ordering her to pay damages and legal costs to her former boss Linda Reynolds in the wake of their bitter defamation stoush.

The appeals, lodged by Higgins’ lawyer Carmel Galati in the Supreme Court of Western Australia on Wednesday, challenge Justice Paul Tottle’s August and September decisions, which awarded Reynolds $315,000 damages and $26,109 interest, and ordered Higgins to cover 80 per cent of the former senator’s legal costs

Those costs included fees for high-profile Perth barrister Martin Bennett, who represented Reynolds during the five-week defamation trial in 2024.

Tottle found Higgins had falsely alleged that Reynolds harassed her and mishandled her rape complaint against colleague Bruce Lehrmann.

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