A former senator’s bid to discover where Brittany Higgins’ $2.4m compensation payout went after their bruising defamation battle has been frustrated by a bankruptcy paperwork glitch.

The former Liberal senator Linda Reynolds successfully sued Higgins over a series of social media posts the former defence minister believed damaged her reputation.

Reynolds was awarded damages of $315,000 plus $26,109 interest after Western Australia’s supreme court in August found some of the posts were defamatory. Linda Reynolds pursues bankruptcy proceedings against Brittany Higgins after defamation win Read more

The former political staffer was also ordered to pay 80% of her former boss’s legal costs, which were estimated to be more than $1m.

Reynolds launched bankruptcy proceedings in October a

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