A decision on whether Brittany Higgins will be declared bankrupt has been delayed due to a court technicality.

Higgins and her husband, David Sharaz, have been ordered to pay Higgins’ former boss, former Liberal senator Linda Reynolds, upwards of $341,000 in damages and likely more than $1 million in legal costs after her defamation action against the pair.

Former WA senator Linda Reynolds and her lawyer, Martin Bennett, arrive at court last year during defamation proceedings against Brittany Higgins and David Sharaz. Credit: Trevor Collens

Justice Paul Tottle found in August that social media posts from Higgins and Sharaz had conveyed an imputation that Reynolds and her office had orchestrated to “cover up” the alleged rape of Higgins by colleague and parliamentary staffer Bruce Le

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