Lehrmann

“When the officer picked up the box to replace it on the chair from which it fell, he noticed part of the title page of an academic research paper, the source of which suggested that the topic of the paper might be sexual assault,” she said…

The inquiry heard that Drumgold and his team made a file note of the earlier Wilkinson meeting on the day a media storm erupted over her speech, which contributed to McCallum’s decision to push back the trial date and preceded media…

A lawyer who acted for Bruce Lehrmann has told an inquiry into the former Coalition staffer’s abandoned rape case that the prosecutor, Shane Drumgold SC, “mockingly” discarded his concern about Brittany Higgins speaking at the National…

Lehrmann, who has always maintained his innocence, observed the first day of public hearings in the inquiry on Monday, helmed for former Queensland Supreme Court judge Walter Sofronoff at the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal in…

In a lengthy signed statement submitted to the inquiry led by former Queensland Supreme Court judge Walter Sofronoff, Drumgold said that during the trial he saw on at least three occasions the defence team stand in a circle with police…

Longbottom stressed it was “important to emphasise that this is not an inquiry into the allegations made by Ms Higgins against Mr Lehrmann”.“It is only concerned with the way in which each of the criminal justice agencies involved fulfilled…

Higgins first made her allegations of sexual assault in the media in February 2021, without naming the alleged perpetrator.She said she had been raped by a Liberal colleague in the parliamentary office of their boss at the time, Defence…

The Australian Federal Police is withholding evidence used by local investigators to prosecute former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann from an inquiry into the abandoned rape trial.The ACT’s Director of Public Prosecutions, Shane Drumgold,…

“I contend that his conduct was driven by malice towards me personally. I also consider that his conduct was political,” Lehrmann wrote.Loading“I take the view that the director’s behaviour was consistent with a legal practitioner who was…

The ACT's top prosecutor has welcomed an independent inquiry into how ex-Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins' rape allegations were handled by his office, local police and a support service for victims.Director of Public Prosecutions Shane…