Bruce Lehrmann is considering an appeal against Justice Michael Lee’s landmark judgment that he raped Brittany Higgins. News.com.au can reveal that Mr Lehrmann has hired noted appeals specialist Guy Reynolds SC, and the appeal plan is likely to be flagged at this week’s costs hearing, on May 1. The barrister’sContinue Reading
Police are reviewing the leaking of Brittany Higgins’ personal phone records to the Spotlight program in the wake of a Federal Court finding that her alleged rapist Bruce Lehrmann was responsible, Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw has revealed. Speaking at the national press club on Wednesday, Commissioner Kershaw saidContinue Reading
Network 10 has argued it should not have to pick up the tab for “unnecessarily duplicative or wasteful” costs incurred by veteran journalist Lisa Wilkinson during their defamation battle with Bruce Lehrmann. In a landmark judgment in the Federal Court last week, Justice Michael Lee found Mr Lehrmann had, onContinue Reading
Brittany Higgins has posted on social media for the first time since a Federal Court judge found her former colleague Bruce Lehrmann raped her. Justice Michael Lee ruled that to the civil standard — that is the balance of probabilities — Mr Lehrmann had lied and had sex with MsContinue Reading
Bruce Lehrmann reportedly fled to a police station after the adverse judgment in his defamation action against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson, and was taken to another location to protect his safety. The Australian reports Mr Lehrmann “sought refuge in a regional police station” and was subsequently transported by officersContinue Reading
Even if Bruce Lehrmann had won his defamation battle with Network 10 and Lisa Wilkinson, he would have only been awarded $20,000. In a scathing judgment delivered in the Federal Court on Monday, Justice Michael Lee found, to the civil standard of the balance of probabilities, that Lehrmann had rapedContinue Reading
Bruce Lehrmann intended to line up interviews with international conservative commentators Piers Morgan and Tucker Carlson, according to former Spotlight producer Taylor Auerbach in a series of texts messages released by the Federal Court. After a bruising five-week trial, a false start and another two days of evidence, Justice MichaelContinue Reading
Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation case against Network 10 and Lisa Wilkinson has officially been reopened, with proceedings underway before Justice Michael Lee in the Federal Court in Sydney. Former senior producer on Seven’s Spotlight program, Taylor Auerbach, has made explosive claims about the network’s dealings with Mr Lehrmann before he agreedContinue Reading
Brittany Higgins called out the leaking of “private” contents from her phone for months, taking to social media and other forums to warn of “the dangerous precedent to tolerate a victim’s private data to be weaponised in this manner without any recourse”. But for nearly a year her complaints fellContinue Reading
An explosive affidavit sworn by ex-Spotlight producer Taylor Auerbach, which contains his account of Bruce Lehrmann’s dealings with the Seven Network as well as numerous attachments, runs to 2000 pages and is set to detonate a fierce legal fight in the Federal Court today. Justice Michael Lee will hold anContinue Reading