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Abraham granted that stay on Wednesday.
Court documents filed in support of the application for security for costs revealed Ten expects to spend $272,500 defending the appeal, including $120,000 on its barristers, led by Melbourne silk Matt Collins, KC.
Wilkinson, who opted to brief a separate legal team headed by Sydney barrister Sue Chrysanthou, SC, was expected to incur a further $203,500 in legal costs, an affidavit filed by Ten’s solicitor Marlia Saunders said. This included $78,500 for Wilkinson’s senior and junior barristers.
Saunders said in the affidavit that Ten “does not concede that the costs … would be properly incurred by [Wilkinson] or reasonable for the purposes of the indemnity”. This is not an indication that Ten would not cover any of those estimated costs, but that there may be a dispute about some of them.
Lehrmann’s solicitor, Zali Burrows, said at a hearing earlier this month her client was “on a Centrelink income, and he won’t be able to meet a security of costs order”. She suggested the application for security was a “bullying tactic”, an accusation rejected by Ten.
Lehrmann was “pretty much unemployable”, Burrows said. She added that “the only shot he’d probably ever … [have] making money is going on OnlyFans or something silly like that”, in a reference to the adults-only content subscription platform.
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