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Bruce Lehrmann ordered to pay $2m to Ten

Amanda Meade

Ten’s defence of defamation action from Bruce Lehrmann amounted to $3.67m but the network has told the federal court it will accept $2m in what the former Liberal staffer’s lawyer said “might be the deal of the century”.

In a costs hearing before justice Michael Lee on Thursday, Lehrmann’s lawyer Paul Svilans said his client neither “contests nor opposes” the order sought by Ten for a $2m lump sum.

The court has previously heard…