The court judgment has been delivered and the salacious battle between Amber Harrison and her former Channel Seven boss Tim Worner is over. Goliath won and David, his former mistress, looks set to be bankrupted.

There is no tell-all book or 60 Minutes interview with Harrison to be had on the rival Nine Network. She is the subject of a gag order.

The opinion battlelines will now be fully drawn between those who believe Harrison was the sacrificial lamb, made a victim of the male-dominated corporate culture, or those who believe her to be the vindictive, spurned lover of a powerful executive.

But the ultimate and complete defeat at the hands of her large and well-resourced adversary just came down to matter of law – she breached the confidentiality conditions of her agreement with Seven about the relationship with Worner.