‘Australia’s most hated man’: five key moments from Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation appeal

Lawyer’s lack of defamation experience leads to strange scenes in court as four-year legal battle comes to abrupt end

Bruce Lehrmann’s appeal of Justice Michael Lee’s April 2024 defamation judgment wrapped up on Thursday, one day short of the three days which had been set down to hear it.

It was an abrupt end to a high-profile four-year legal battle over Network Ten’s interview with Brittany Higgins on The Project on 15 February 2021.

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