Brittany Higgins has dropped her appeal against her one-time boss and former Liberal senator Linda Reynolds’ defamation win in Western Australia’s Supreme Court.

Higgins and her partner David Sharaz were ordered to pay upwards of $341,000 and likely more than $1 million in legal costs to Reynolds after they were found to have defamed her in social media posts.

WA Senator Linda Reynolds (right) and former staffer Brittany Higgins (centre) with Ms Higgins’ husband, David Sharaz. Credit: Composite image by Aresna Villanueva

Higgins and Sharaz alleged Reynolds and her office had orchestrated to “cover up” the rape of Higgins by colleague and parliamentary staffer Bruce Lehrmann at Parliament House in 2019.

While separate civil court proceedings determined on the balance of probabilitie

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