Sports scientist Stephen Dank has vowed to fight on after being told he will have to pay two sets of legal bills and won't be awarded damages following a failed defamation suit against a Sydney tabloid.
Mr Dank was seeking aggravated damages from Nationwide News, publisher of The Sunday Telegraph and The Daily Telegraph, over a series of 2013 articles about his controversial supplements program at the Cronulla Sharks NRL club.
But following Friday's judgment, AAP understands he will face a legal bill in excess of $2 million.
Mr Dank had a minor win on Tuesday, following a month-long trial at the NSW Supreme Court, with the four-person jury finding he was defamed in an article that suggested he injected Cronulla players with the blood thinner warfarin.
That was untrue as the substance wasn't warfarin but was a feed supplement for horses, Justice Lucy McCallum found.
Mr Dank lost his case against two further sets of articles relating to the peptides supplements regime at the club.
The jury on Monday found he had acted with "reckless indifference" towards NRL player Jon Mannah's life by giving him dangerous peptides that may have accelerated his death from cancer.
On Friday, another chapter in the Dank saga was concluded, with Justice McCallum ordering him to pay all legal costs associated with the trial. He was also denied damages.
About an hour after the decision, Mr Dank denied it was a bad result and said he would be appealing.
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