Former Liberal staffer says he was outraged by reporting of Brittany Higgins’s rape allegations and wanted to ‘fight back’
Bruce Lehrmann says he was outraged by the reporting of Brittany Higgins’s allegations of rape and wanted to “fight back”, but was advised by his then lawyer to hold off commencing a defamation claim.
Lehrmann is required to demonstrate it was not reasonable for him to have filed defamation proceedings within 12 months of the publications.His barrister, Steven Whybrow SC, argued that Lehrmann was acting on prior legal advice from his previous firm, Korn Tlais Defence Lawyers, not to initiate defamation proceedings after the publications.
He says that he had been “not in a good way, to put it lightly” following the initial stories on 15 February 2021.
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