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Kerry Stokes can’t see Fairfax’s itemised legal bill in Ben Roberts-Smith case
Defamation 2023-12-21 12:41 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Billionaire Kerry Stokes has lost his challenge to paying in lump sum Fairfax’s legal fees in defending Ben Roberts-Smith’s failed defamation case over war crimes allegations, having argued for an itemised bill after the Seven West Media chair agreed to foot the costs on an indemnity basis.

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Lehrmann ‘plied’ Higgins with alcohol on night of alleged rape, says lip reader
Trials 2023-12-19 5:52 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A lip reading expert has given evidence of his interpretation of CCTV footage at a bar on the night Bruce Lehrmann allegedly raped Brittany Higgins, saying he “encouraged” her to finish drinks, a claim the former Liberal staffer has denied.

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Protecting journalist’s sources in the public interest, judge says in surgeon’s defamation case
Defamation 2023-12-19 11:33 am By Sam Matthews

A judge has rejected a top orthopaedic surgeon’s bid to uncover the names of 13 sources who gave information to a Nine journalist, preferring the public interest in protecting the sources’ identities and noting their fears of reprisals by the Sydney surgeon. 

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ACT Police Chief can’t intervene in Drumgold challenge to Higgins prosecution report
Public law 2023-12-19 3:08 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has refused a bid by the ACT Police Chief to intervene on behalf of the AFP in Shane Drumgold SC legal challenge to the findings of an inquiry into the prosecution of Brittany Higgins’ assault claims against Bruce Lehrmann, but has allowed six police officers to be joined to defend the findings.

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Judge says Reynolds’ ex-chief of staff Fiona Brown can’t avoid giving evidence in Lehrmann trial
Defamation 2023-12-18 10:44 pm By Sam Matthews

The judge overseeing Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation trial against Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson has rejected a bid by the former chief of staff to then defence minister Linda Reynolds to avoid giving evidence on the basis of “harm it may cause to her health conditions”. 

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Reynolds’ former chief of staff denies Brittany Higgins disclosed alleged rape
Defamation 2023-12-18 11:41 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The former chief of staff for MP Linda Reynolds has denied that Brittany Higgins disclosed an alleged sexual assault to her in March 2019.

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MP says Higgins told him about alleged rape by Liberal staffer
Trials 2023-12-18 5:03 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A Queensland MP known to Brittany Higgins has told a court that the former Liberal staffer told him that a  colleague had raped her, just days after she was allegedly assaulted by Bruce Lehrmann.

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Lisa Wilkinson stands by claim that Linda Reynolds was ‘lying through her teeth’
Defamation 2023-12-15 10:23 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Network Ten journalist Lisa Wilkinson has been accused of bias towards former defence minister Linda Reynolds because of a message she sent hours before an episode of The Project aired in which Brittany Higgins alleged she was raped in Parliament House, in which she said the senator was “lying through her teeth”.

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Bruce Lehrmann won’t recall Brittany Higgins over recorded chat between lawyer, fiancĂ©
Defamation 2023-12-15 1:59 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Bruce Lehrmann will not call Brittany Higgins back to the witness box in his defamation trial against Network Ten and journalist Lisa Wilksinon to give evidence on a secret recording of a conversation between her fiancé and solicitor.

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Judge in Lehrmann case wants to see Lisa Wilkinson’s legal advice on Logies speech
Trials 2023-12-14 1:13 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge overseeing the trial in Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation case against Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson has asked to see the legal advice Wilkinson received before giving her Logies acceptance speech last year, saying it was “inconceivable” any lawyer would have approved it.

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