In April 2021, Bruce Lehrmann met with officers inside the AFP’s officers in the Sydney CBD and gave his version of what happened inside Parliament House on the night he allegedly raped Brittany Higgins.
A Federal Court judge dismissed Bruce Lehrmann ’s defamation suit against Lisa Wilkinson and Network 10 this week, after being unable to move past one specific lie.
Just under three years later, that story featured prominently when Lehrmann was labelled by a Federal Court judge as a liar and a rapist as his multi-million dollar defamation battle with Network 10 and Lisa Wilkinson was thrown out.When he appeared on the witness stand in the Federal Court last year, Lehrmann said that he never had any sexual contact with Brittany Higgins that morning.
“Can you identify any information that you learned either at the Dock or 88MPH on the 22nd of March that was relevant to the work you were doing for the minister concerning question time briefs,” Dr Collins asked.In dismissing Lehrmann’s proceedings on Monday, Justice Michael Lee was scathing of Lehrmann’s claims about why he went back to Parliament.
CCTV of Bruce Lehrmann and Brittany Higgins entering Senator Linda Reynolds’ office. Picture: NCA NewsWire. ”In his pursuit of gratification, he did not care one way or another whether Ms Higgins understood or agreed to what was going on,” Justice Lee said.However their qualified privilege defence failed, after Justice Lee assessed the reasonableness of the broadcaster’s actions in putting the story to air.
Justice Lee also found that Ms Wilkinson and producer Angus Llewellyn failed to ask follow up questions when Ms Higgins claimed her phone had been “wiped” yet the photo survived.“And The Project team had strong indications of the unreliability of their main source,” Justice Lee said.
“I don’t want to put words in your mouth, but if you can enunciate the fact that this place is all about suppression of people’s natural sense of justice,” Ms Wilkinson said.
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