Overview
- Higgins lodged the appeal in the WA Court of Appeal on Wednesday, the final day available to challenge the ruling.
- The appeal targets Justice Paul Tottle’s judgment that her posts defamed Reynolds, including $315,000 in damages and $26,109 interest.
- She is also appealing the order to pay 80% of Reynolds’s legal costs, which remain to be assessed after Reynolds’s lawyer estimated they would exceed $1 million.
- The notices seek to overturn a finding that she breached a 2021 settlement deed with an Instagram reference to being a defamation victim.
- The case stems from Reynolds’s suit over Higgins’s 2022 social media posts, as separate Federal Court findings held on the balance of probabilities that Bruce Lehrmann raped Higgins, a decision he is appealing.