An accusation catapulted the ex-Liberal staffer into the public consciousness from the obscurity of former roles in government and at British American Tobacco.
He is the 28-year-old former federal Liberal staffer who alleges his reputation was torn to shreds when Brittany Higgins publicly accused a then-unnamed former colleague of raping her in Parliament House in 2019.
His ACT Supreme Court criminal trial for Higgins’ sexual assault started on October 4, 2022. Lehrmann maintains his innocence and exercised his right to silence at the trial. As is common in sexual assault trials, Higgins was the key prosecution witness.The trial ran for 12 days and the jury deliberated for five days. But on October 27 the trial was aborted after it emerged a juror had brought a research paper into the jury room.
Two months later, on February 7, 2023, Lehrmann launched Federal Court defamation proceedings against Ten and Lisa Wilkinson, a former co-host ofwho helmed the network’s interview with Higgins. He accused the network and its former star presenter of defaming him by alleging he was guilty of sexually assaulting Higgins.The Federal Court trial spanned a month and had concluded in December last year, before Ten was allowed to reopen its case on Tuesday toprogram last year.
His case against the ABC related to its broadcast of a National Press Club address in 2022 by Grace Tame and Higgins. That case was also settled on the eve of what would have been a joint trial with the Ten parties starting in November last year. Albrechtsen was consistently critical of Drumgold in her articles, the court heard, and acting Justice Stephen Kaye said “a fair-minded lay observer” might reasonably have “apprehended that Mr Sofronoff … might have been influenced by the views, held and publicly expressed by Ms Albrechtsen, concerning the conduct by the plaintiff of the prosecution of the criminal proceedings against Mr Lehrmann”.
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