The latest chapter in the various legal cases associated with Brittany Higgins’ allegations of rape against Bruce Lehrmann in 2021 has come to a close, with the WA Supreme Court hearing closing arguments in WA Liberal Senator Linda Reynolds’ defamation suit against her former staffer Higgins.
It comes after Justice Michael Lee’s decision earlier this year in Lehrmann’s defamation claim against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson. Lee found on the balance of probabilities that Lehrmann, then a colleague of Higgins, raped her while she was intoxicated on a lounge in Reynolds’ parliamentary office in March 2019.
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