A former senator’s bid to discover where Brittany Higgins’ $2.4m compensation payout went after their bruising defamation battle has been frustrated by a bankruptcy paperwork glitch.
The former Liberal senator Linda Reynolds successfully sued Higgins over a series of social media posts the former defence minister believed damaged her reputation.
Reynolds was awarded damages of $315,000 plus $26,109 interest after Western Australia’s supreme court in August found some of the posts were defamatory.
The former political staffer was also ordered to pay 80% of her former boss’s legal costs, which were estimated to be more than $1m.
Reynolds launched bankruptcy proceedings in October against Higgins to recoup the costs awarded in her…