Linda Reynolds win over Higgins latest chapter in ugly public fight

Australia He describes the story in the headlines: “Reynolds won the slander case and caused great damages”; “Albanians should accept responsibility for ‘Higgins’ lies’: Reynolds”; And “26 lies told Higgins Media interviews”. The rape that filed a thousand lawsuits demanded another victim.

Former Senator and Minister Linda Reynolds won the insulting case of 315,000 dollars damage to a tweet and Instagram story against Brittany Higgins. Not big, absolutely large and probably destructive for Higgins.

Of course, at this point, no one wants another recital of sad history, then let’s focus.

In March 2019, you will remember that during the rape, Reynolds was the boss of Higgins (and Bruce Lehrmann). Two years later, the Higgins story opened to the public and Canberra exploded.

Higgins’s narrative, news.com.au’s interviews with Samantha Maiden and ProjectLisa Wilkinson said that the priority of the government at that time was effectively thrown on the sidewalk after reporting that rape was to control political damage. He believed that he was a victim of a great covering attempt and that Reynolds’s treatment was dried (at least to say).

What was once a happy working relationship between Reynolds and Higgins went down to something like a blood feud. Higgins filed a lawsuit for calling Reynolds for calling him a “liar cow ((Reynolds settled and apologized), while Reynolds was allegedly insulting him after three social media tasks after a malicious, malicious hippocrites.

The decision is 360 pages long. Justice Tottle found that all three tasks scribbled Reynolds, but Higgins made a good defense for one of them. He went down the other two.

The keys of the decision are the findings of the reliability of the three main witnesses: Reynolds, Higgins and Fiona Brown, the Chief of General Staff who made most of the critical theme with Higgins in the days following Reynolds’ rape.

Brown had the advantage of his grades at that time, and accepted what the judge was as a more reliable record than everyone’s memory restructuring. Where there were conflicts about what was said, Brown’s notes won.

Reynolds was found as a “annoying” but “honest” witness, but “determined to be heard of the account of events”. In short, he had an agenda, but he didn’t think he was lying.

It was difficult to consider Higgins as a witness, because since he did not give evidence in this case, the judge did not find it suitable for joining medically. Police interview and statements were allowed at the criminal case and slander of Lehrmann and the judge had to do his best with them. It was still not affected by allowing the effect of trauma.

Basically, although judge Higgins had been raped by Lehrmann, he found most of his evidence of what was later as “fraudulent .. As a result, he did not accept any of what he said without supporting.

Tottele’s assessment has shattered Higgins’s narrative since 2021: until then, he said, “He was a vessel victim and… he was ill -treated”. “From critical angles [her] The view of what happened did not follow the reality of what happened… [her] The account of the events was distorted because he had to follow his views on how he was treated by the liberal party … The presence of a covering was a vital part. [her] story”.

To underline this, the judge reveals that they say there were 26 false or misleading statements made by Higgins in the 2021 media interview. He describes him as “the media understanding, strategic thinker ve and concludes that he added lies to support the story he wants and skips inappropriate facts.

As a result, all the biggest real debates in the epic were solved in favor of Reynolds. He didn’t know the rape until Higgins claimed, not when he sat on the same couch in his office a few days later; There was no attempt to block Higgins or Police to access CCTV images; Nobody tried to talk to him; He was not frozen, treated or wrong with hostility; and so on.

When we come to messages, the result is not a surprise. Hakim Higgins, Reynolds’un pushing the complaint of the police, a hypocritical advocacy advocacy of gender equality, Higgins’in harassment campaign is a hypocritical campaign, the allegation of rape wrongly used and the defense advisor to the interrogated with all the work of all the work of the husband and the husband and the husband and the husband and the husband and the husband and the husband of all the work of the husband and the husband and the husband and the husband and the husband and the husband and the husband and the husband of all the work of the husband and the husband and the husband and the husband and the husband and the husband and the husband and the husband and the husband and the husband and the husband and the husband and the husband and the husband.

Since all these claims were wrong (found a judge), Higgins had no defense, and the Reynolds – reputation and very painful emotions – were deep. Thus, the big damage snarry. At legal costs, Higgins is easily looking for seven figures.

Fair? I have no idea. In the days and months after rape, only Antagonists know what really happened. They all chose to fight in the public for good or bad reasons and burned them all in changing degrees. Nothing came from anything literally.

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