Former senator David Leyonhjelm has avoided having his property seized to enforce a $125,000 defamation payment to fellow senator Sarah Hanson-Young which was due to be paid last year, the Federal Court has been told.

Mr Leyonhjelm, 68, was successfully sued over claims he made about Ms Hanson-Young in a press release and series of interviews following a Senate debate in 2018 about weapons importation and violence against women.

Former senator David Leyonhjelm outside court last year. Credit:AAP/Bianca De Marchi

Mr Leyonhjelm told the media, including the ABC's 7.30 program, Sky News and Melbourne radio station 3AW, that he told Ms Hanson-Young to "stop shagging men" after she claimed during the debate that "all men are rapists".

She denied saying those words, and in a judgment last year Justice Richard White found Ms Hanson-Young did not say them.