Lehrmann called ‘national joke’ on return to lion’s den

Bruce Lehrmann challenged the findings of a turning point of slander, and argued that all rape did not contain violence because his / her reputation was beaten another.

Former Federal Political Personnel appeal to the Network Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson, who sued in an interview with former colleague Brittany Higgins in the project in 2021.

In April 2024, the Federal Court Justice Michael Lee claimed that Mrs. Higgins was raped by Lehrmann at the Parliament Building in 2019.

In the title-tutan decision, the judge said: “Mr. Lehrmann, who escaped from Lions, made the mistake of returning to his hat with a reference to Karık complex slander”.

Lehrmann’s lawyer Zali Burrows told the Court of Appeal to the Court of Appeal on Wednesday by Justice Lee’s abandoned penalty hearing.

Kanal Ten and Wilkinson’un aggravated the attention of the media, Lehrmann’a, led to a hateful social media interpretations, he said.

“It almost became a national joke, Bur Burrows said to court.

He argued that the 30 -year -old Lehrmann’s procedural justice was rejected, because the truths found by Justice Lee were “very different” from the case of Ten.

The former liberal personnel adopted a “softer” series that was not put in a cross questioning to Lehrmann.

He claimed that Lehrmann was accused of a violent rape, but he found Justice Lee that he was “a non -violent rape ve, and justice asked Craig Colvin that he wasn’t sure he understood this concept.

Ten’s lawyer Matt Collins Kc claimed that the judge’s rape of Ms. Higgins was violent and indeed: “All rape is violent”.

Lehrmann argued that the judge was not satisfied with a series of violences discussed by him, including the fact that Higgins had kept his legs open.

“The sting of imports of (slander) is in sexual intercourse without consent, not in detail,” Dr Collins said.

Lehrmann rejected proposals that if he succeeds in the objection, more than $ 20,000 would be damaged.

When Lehrmann knew he was seriously drunk, Mrs. Higgins raped Higgins, raped her when she realized, and left her in a position of dressing.

“This is not a man with any reputation that requires compensation for sexual morality,” he said.

He had a problem with Justice Lee’s finding Lehrmann, reckless about whether Mrs. Higgins was consent and called on to find out that she knew that the Court of Appeal did not consent.

Wilkinson’s lawyer, Lehrmann’s “indifference level, could not be accidentally and that he had a definition of“ deliberate rape ”, as understood by an ordinary person.

“A young man who knows a woman is so drunk, knows that she can’t show consent, S said Sue Chrysanthou SC.

“This is not a legal question, but a question on the standards of this community.”

Lehrmann did not only know that Mrs. Higgins was very drunk, but also encouraged her to drink.

Both lawyers argued that Lehrmann was faced with the main facts of the case found by Justice Lee: sex took place, Mrs. Higgins did not consent, and she was reckless about the consent of Lehrmann.

Lehrmann argues that Mrs. Higgins has been sexually assaulted and the 2022 criminal case against him was abandoned without any findings against him.

In the early hours of the day, Mrs. Burrows said that Lehrmann was not represented by a silk and that he said to the Guy Reynolds SC to the Judges Panel that he “really wanted, but that he could not“ meet him ”.

The insult case and the relevant appeal are among a series of court actions that emerged by Mrs. Higgins’s allegation of sexual assault.

The Western Australian Supreme Court will make a rule about the high -profile slander against Ms. Higgins, former employee of the former liberal senator Linda Reynolds next Wednesday.

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