Long-awaited decision in Linda Reynolds versus Brittany Higgins defamation case to be handed down next week
Linda Reynolds’ former young media consultant Brittany Higgins against the box office records of insulting case will finally announced next week.
The long -awaited decision by the Supreme Court of Justice Court Paul Tottle will be delivered on August 27, almost a year after the completion of the bitter civilian action.
He heard almost two dozen witnesses, but Ms. Higgins, whom the old liberal senator claimed to damage his reputation in a series of social media, was not among them.
Mrs. Higgins, through the plans to give expression through the trials of health reasons stated.
Higgins’s husband, David Sharaz, is also sued by the former minister, but after being represented by a lawyer in previous hearings, he decided to defend himself before the hearing began.
However, through his lawyer Rachel Young, Mrs Higgins argued that he did not want to humiliate Mrs. Reynolds in 2022 and 2023 in online publications.
In them, Mrs Higgins said that he claimed to be a “bullying ve and later claimed that Boss claimed that he claimed that he had been raped by his colleague Bruce Lehrmann at the Parliament Building in 2019.
Mr. Lehrmann was accused of sexual assaulted Ms. Higgins, but the 2022 trial was canceled due to the abuse of the jury. It continues to maintain its innocence.
However, in 2024, in a subsequent insult case against Network Ten and Journalist Lisa Wilkinson, the Federal Court Justice Michael Lee determined that Mr. Lehrmann raped Mrs. Higgins in Ms. Reynolds Canberra office.
It is based on the balance of possibilities and the standard of evidence in civil cases.
Justice Lee also found that the other claim in Mrs. Reynolds and others, which includes a political covering, was not true.
Ms. Reynolds pointed to this finding over and over when she talked to journalists outside the hearing and took a stand for a week.
“A clown clown like a clown like a fairground” explained to feel.
Separately, Mrs. Reynolds, the federal government, Ms. Higgins on the hand of a $ 2,4 million agreement on the allegation of allegedly sued.
Legal procedure is also against HWL Ebsworth, a law firm that Commonwealth is trying to deal with it.
The first case management hearing is planned on 8 October.
