How much do our reputations matter? Hugely.

Witness what is happening between former Liberal senator Linda Reynolds and Brittany Higgins , who was found, on the balance of probabilities, to have been raped by Bruce Lehrmann in Parliament House in 2019 .

In case you missed it, Justice Paul Tottle in the WA Supreme Court found Higgins and her husband David Sharaz defamed Reynolds on social media. He ordered Higgins to pay a total of $315,000 in damages , plus interest, to Reynolds. Legal costs to come. Terrifying.

I asked Rick Sarre, emeritus professor in law and criminal justice at the University of South Australia, who has followed the case carefully, about it. Reynolds, he says, is entitled to chase the money. She's won the defamation battle . "But she hasn't yet won the financ

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