This Month
Ten settles its Lehrmann bill, but from a shrinking purse
New accounts show Ten had almost $1 million set aside for litigation and legal bills before the Bruce Lehrmann defamation matter officially began.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Bruce Lehrmann given extension to appeal but will be forced to pay
The former Liberal staffer has appointed barrister Guy Reynolds, SC, to review his case. He has until May 31 to lodge an appeal.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Judge in Lehrmann case slams Ten lawyer’s ‘misleading’ interviews
Justice Michael Lee criticises Ten’s lawyer as he determines how much Bruce Lehrmann should pay in costs; Albanese pledges almost $1 billion for domestic violence victims. Here’s how the day unfolded.
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- Tess Bennett
April
Bruce Lehrmann rejected offer to settle, should pay all costs: Ten
Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson offered to settle with Bruce Lehrmann in August last year. He rejected it within two hours.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Higgins must accept there was no cover-up: Reynolds
Senator Linda Reynolds will proceed with her defamation lawsuit unless Brittany Higgins and David Sharaz accept Federal Court findings there was no cover-up of rape.
- Ronald Mizen
- Exclusive
- Lehrmann trial
Lehrmann judge queries Ten lawyer’s criticism
Lawyer Justin Quill says the way defamation trials pick apart journalists’ work is “divorced from reality”.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
A rape, a cover-up narrative and a political firestorm
“Tonight, claims of rape, roadblocks to a police investigation, and a young woman forced to choose between her career and the pursuit of justice”. That is how Ten introduced its interview with Brittany Higgins.
- Ronald Mizen
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- Lehrmann trial
Higgins, Sharaz should settle with ‘vindicated’ Reynolds: Dutton
The opposition leader says Brittany Higgins and her fiancé David Sharaz should settle the senator’s defamation actions against them and issue a “full apology”.
- Ronald Mizen
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Forensic judgment proves rape, debunks political cover-up
Justice Lee’s factual pushback at some of the unthinking cultural warfare that has overwhelmed politics and media in recent times has performed a great service.
- The AFR View
The Lehrmann judgment’s best line wears many hats
Who wouldn’t want credit for the line that more than any other will come to characterise this trial?
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- Myriam Robin
- Analysis
- Lehrmann trial
How Lehrmann’s many lies added up to rape
In this contest of credibility between Bruce Lehrmann and Brittany Higgins, the judge decided it was no contest.
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- Michael Pelly
Judge finds Lehrmann raped Higgins, but no Morrison cover-up
Justice Michael Lee has found that Bruce Lehrmann raped his former colleague in 2019, but says the talk of a political cover-up was “short on facts”.
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- Sam Buckingham-Jones
What judge in Lehrmann trial said about consent
The judgment sheds light on modern understandings of consent – or, as Justice Lee said, what “the ordinary person on the Belconnen omnibus” views as rape.
- Hannah Wootton
- Analysis
- Lehrmann trial
The stupidity of Bruce Lehrmann
The ex-political adviser turned victory into defeat in the quest for money. He will now be known as the rapist who put himself on trial, and lost.
- Aaron Patrick
Lehrmann, BRS defeats will make public figures think twice before suing
A series of significant defamation defeats, coupled with recent law reform, will see the number of high-profile cases continue to fall, academics and practitioners say.
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- Maxim Shanahan
‘Deliberate lies’: What Lee found on the rape and the ‘cover up’
Handing down in findings in the Bruce Lehrmann defamation case, Justice Michael Lee has made detailed findings about the credibility of witnesses and about the alleged cover-up. Here’s a summary of what he found.
Ten wins case as judge finds Lehrmann raped Higgins
Justice Michael Lee has found Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson were telling the truth in their report. How the day unfolded.
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- Hannah Wootton
Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation trial judgment date set
Justice Michael Lee in the Federal Court will deliver his judgment in Bruce Lehrmann’s bombshell defamation case on Monday.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Higgins memoir on ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ parties at Parliament House
Pages from Brittany Higgins’ unpublished memoir, which have been tendered in a defamation trial, reveal more grubby behaviour at the top of politics.
- Hannah Wootton and Tom McIlroy
How Seven hid Bruce Lehrmann’s cocaine repayment: ex-producer
Bruce Lehrmann submitted an expenses form to the Seven Network that included “pre-production expenses”. Ex-producer Taylor Auerbach says that meant drugs.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
