Kapiti Coast investment adviser Chris Lee has been ordered to pay property magnate Sir Robert Jones about $80,000 toward his defamation court costs.

However, Sir Robert failed to convince Justice Denis Clifford that he should receive indemnity, or increased, costs.

In May a jury in the High Court at Wellington made a $104,000 defamation award against Mr Lee. It found that articles on his website and various other publications were motivated by ill-will toward Sir Robert, who had claimed $804,000 damages.

Bob Bangerter has been adjudicated bankrupt by a New Zealand court for the second time.

Sir Robert Jones' company, Robt Jones Holding, had applied to bankrupt the Blue Chip co-founder because the company was owed $395,000 of unpaid rent for an Auckland office block where Blue Chip operated from.