How Justice Michael Lee untangled the Higgins-Lehrmann ‘omnishambles’
It was a masterclass in dispassionate legal dissection with lessons for future defamation and sexual assault prosecutions, and for media practice
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In determining that Bruce Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins, federal court justice Michael Lee took a giant knot of allegations, with all its loops and loose ends, and meticulously and painstakingly unpicked it.
That he did it with such acerbic clarity makes an already unusual judgment only more so.
Law (Australia) | The Guardian
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