Brittany Higgins has submitted evidence suggesting she may have been drugged on the night she was allegedly raped, in a defamation case. The judgment will be delivered on April 15 after considering the additional material and legal submissions.
Brittany Higgins has raised the question of whether she may have been drugged on the night she alleges she was raped.
They include material raised in a master chronology prepared by Mr Lehrmann’s legal team regarding April 4, 2019, a few days after Ms Higgins first spoke to police. The Assistant Commissioner Leanne Close records in her notes, “we need to speak to a range of people. Security staff cleaners may have info.”
“And while there is evidence now that there was ‘info’ that Ms Higgins was drugged, and that the concerns expressed in that note...the basis upon which the concerns were held was not explored. The document refers to Assistant Commissioner Leanne Close, and her notes that Defence Minister Linda Reynolds met with her on April 4, 2019, advising Minister Reynolds “of allegations of sexual assault”.
The document also records Assistant Commissioner Leanne Close’s notes of a meeting with Senator Reynolds on April 4 AFP Assistant Commissioner Leanne Close's notes of meeting with Linda Reynolds on April 4, 2019. Picture: Federal Court of Australia “It is entirely consistent with contemporary understanding of the reaction of victims of sexual assault.
“To the extent that peripheral details of her reconstructed memory were wrong, it does not in any way reflect adversely upon her honesty .”The legal submission argues that the balance of Mr Lehrmann’s submissions alleging dishonesty rarely rise any higher than the observance of an inconsistency in the account given by Ms Higgins at different points in time.
During the defamation trial, Justice Lee asked some pointed questions about whether the Commonwealth had admitted liability.
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