April
- Opinion
- Sexism
Women know the true power of Justice Lee’s finding
It wasn’t just about one rape in Canberra. It is a pattern of male behaviour lamented by all politicians but which continues just the same.
- Laura Tingle
- Analysis
- Legal industry
What Bruce Lehrmann could do next
Bruce Lehrmann has 28 days to appeal, but he needs to find the lawyers and the money first.
- Michael Pelly
- Opinion
- Opinion
Higgins ‘cover-up’ no Watergate. It was another ‘Russsiagate’
Journalists won “glittering prizes” for the stories that were misinformation, but there’s no sign of anyone giving back their awards.
- John Roskam
Ex-Seven producer demands compensation, apology from Seven
Taylor Auerbach, who helped secure Bruce Lehrmann for an exclusive Spotlight interview, says he has been proven right by the Federal Court’s decision on Monday.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
- Exclusive
- Media & marketing
Lehrmann judge queries Ten lawyer’s criticism
Lawyer Justin Quill says the way defamation trials pick apart journalists’ work is “divorced from reality”.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
- Analysis
- Legal industry
Bruce Lehrmann’s lawyer, Mark O’Brien, is on a losing streak
Losses in high-profile cases have experts wondering if Sydney’s client-friendly defamation culture is changing.
- Aaron Patrick
A rape, a cover-up narrative and a political firestorm
“Tonight, claims of rape, roadblocks to a police investigation, and a young woman forced to choose between her career and the pursuit of justice”. That is how Ten introduced its interview with Brittany Higgins.
- Ronald Mizen
- Updated
- Scott Morrison
Higgins, Sharaz should settle with ‘vindicated’ Reynolds: Dutton
The opposition leader says Brittany Higgins and her fiancé David Sharaz should settle the senator’s defamation actions against them and issue a “full apology”.
- Ronald Mizen
The Lehrmann judgment’s best line wears many hats
Who wouldn’t want credit for the line that more than any other will come to characterise this trial?
- Updated
- Myriam Robin
- Analysis
- Analysis
How Lehrmann’s many lies added up to rape
In this contest of credibility between Bruce Lehrmann and Brittany Higgins, the judge decided it was no contest.
- Updated
- Michael Pelly
Judge finds Lehrmann raped Higgins, but no Morrison cover-up
Justice Michael Lee has found that Bruce Lehrmann raped his former colleague in 2019, but says the talk of a political cover-up was “short on facts”.
- Updated
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
What judge in Lehrmann trial said about consent
The judgment sheds light on modern understandings of consent – or, as Justice Lee said, what “the ordinary person on the Belconnen omnibus” views as rape.
- Hannah Wootton
The omnishambles built on rape and ‘short-on-facts’ theory
Never before in Australia’s history has one allegation sparked such an extensive, expensive and, oftentimes, downright bizarre series of courtroom battles.
- Ronald Mizen
- Analysis
- Analysis
The stupidity of Bruce Lehrmann
The ex-political adviser turned victory into defeat in the quest for money. He will now be known as the rapist who put himself on trial, and lost.
- Aaron Patrick
Lehrmann, BRS defeats will make public figures think twice before suing
A series of significant defamation defeats, coupled with recent law reform, will see the number of high-profile cases continue to fall, academics and practitioners say.
- Updated
- Maxim Shanahan
‘Deliberate lies’: What Lee found on the rape and the ‘cover up’
Handing down in findings in the Bruce Lehrmann defamation case, Justice Michael Lee has made detailed findings about the credibility of witnesses and about the alleged cover-up. Here’s a summary of what he found.
Ten wins case as judge finds Lehrmann raped Higgins
Justice Michael Lee has found Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson were telling the truth in their report. How the day unfolded.
- Updated
- Hannah Wootton
Lehrmann ruling begins; Sixth Bondi victim named; Iran’s market hit
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
‘Destined for greatness’: Lehrmann judge tested his arm with former PM
All eyes will be on Justice Michael Lee – arguably the best-known judge in the land – when he hands down his judgment in the Bruce Lehrmann defamation case on Monday.
- Michael Pelly
New Seven expenses scandal as Spotlight boss enlists lawyer
Mark Llewellyn, executive producer of Seven’s flagship current affairs show, has tapped John Laxon for advice, as the network deals with new allegations of corporate wrongdoing.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones