High-profile journalist Lisa Wilkinson has argued she never doubted Brittany Higgins' rape allegations as part of an attempt to overturn critical court findings about her reporting.
While Justice Michael Lee found a Network Ten report onwhen it effectively outed him as a rapist, the judge said that not enough was done to test Higgins' allegations beforehand.
"When examined properly and without partiality, the cover-up allegation was objectively short on facts, but long on speculation and internal inconsistencies," Lee said. In the notice, Wilkinson's barristers Sue Chrysanthou SC and Barry Dean said Lee erred by rejecting her unchallenged affidavit evidence about the steps she took beforeThe judge dismissed this evidence, saying there was "a decided air of artificiality" behind the affidavits in their suggestion thatWilkinson's barristers say their client acted reasonably because she was "never in doubt" about Higgins' account and had relied on trusted and experienced producers...
After finding that Higgins was significantly intoxicated and remained passive "like a log" during sex, the judge should have found Lehrmann had actual knowledge of her lack of consent, Chrysanthou and Dean argued. He said that because of the deficiencies in Higgins' evidence, the court should not have found he engaged in such a serious crime and instead upheld his defamation case.broadcast was very different to what Lee found, he wrote.
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