Brittany Higgins has been ordered to pay the lion's share of her former boss Linda Reynolds's legal expenses in the blockbuster defamation trial that concluded last month.

Justice Paul Tottle ruled in August that Ms Higgins had defamed Ms Reynolds in a series of social media posts, and today ruled that she must pay 80 per cent of her former employer's legal costs.

The exact amount was not disclosed, but is thought to be in the high hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Ms Reynolds, who has now retired from politics, successfully sued Ms Higgins over three social media posts 2022 and 2023, and was awarded $315,000 in damages plus $26,000 in interest.

The former senator argued the posts trashed her reputation and caused her immense distress, following a period of ill health.

Ms Higgins had

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