Each new development sparks more legal action, and we may not have seen the last of it
Lehrmann has denied raping Higgins, a fellow Liberal staffer in Reynolds’ office, and pleaded not guilty at trial. His trial was aborted due to juror misconduct and a second trial was abandoned due to concerns about the risk it posed to Higgins’ life.– before it was sent to the territory government.was under way.
Further, it denied him procedural fairness because he was blindsided in the media by the torrent of findings against him, before he had an opportunity to read the report and respond.Integrity campaigner Geoffrey Watson has said that this denial of fairness to Drumgold vitiates the report and its findings.
Sally Dowling, the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions, entered the melee, indicating that Sofronoff incorrectly drew from another case, R v Barrett, where his report referred to a court-ordered permanent stay because of a weak prosecution owing to the lack of credibility of a crucial witness. From the latest round of federal court case management, we know that Brittany Higgins will be giving evidence for the media defendants and that Lehrmann’s lawyers have flagged she will be subjected to “lengthy” cross-examination.
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