Judge finds Bruce Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins and dismisses Network 10 defamation case. How did it play out?
- Written by Brendan Clift, Lecturer of law, The University of Melbourne
Bruce Lehrmann has lost his defamation suit against Channel Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson after the media defendants proved, on the balance of probabilities, that Lehrmann raped his colleague Brittany Higgins in Parliament House in 2019.
After a trial lasting around a month, Federal Court Justice Michael Lee – an experienced defamation...
