Federal Court Justice Michael Lee has handed down his decision in the former political staffer’s high-stakes defamation case against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson.
Bruce Lehrmann has lost his multimillion-dollar defamation suit after a judge found Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson had proven the former federal Liberal staffer raped his then-colleague Brittany Higgins in Parliament House.
“I am satisfied that it is more likely than not that Mr Lehrmann’s state of mind was such that he was so intent upon gratification to be indifferent to Ms Higgins’s consent and hence went ahead with sexual intercourse without caring whether she consented,” Lee said. Lehrmann’s criminal trial was aborted in October 2022 due to juror misconduct and the charges were later dropped altogether owing to concerns about Higgins’ mental health.Lehrmann launched defamation proceedings last year against Ten and Wilkinson, a former co-host of, alleging the interview with Higgins conveyed the defamatory meaning that he was guilty of raping Higgins in Parliament House.
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