 The settlement cost Victorian taxpayers $2.5 million plus costs, for a total of more than $3.5 million, documents reveal.Senior lawyers had told the government that it should have paid a maximum of $250,000 plus legal costs.Confidential Government documents show Mr Guy ordered the multimillion-dollar payment despite repeated legal advice from a number of senior lawyers that the government had a strong case, and there was little or no grounds for a damages claim against it.