Journalist Lisa Wilkinson says she did not see the legal advice about what details to include in an interview on The Project with alleged rape victim Brittany Higgins, but she trusted that Network Ten’s lawyers had cleared it.

In the fourth week of a defamation trial brought against Ten and Wilkinson by former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann, Wilkinson was in a Federal Court witness box on Friday defending the program she hosted on February 15, 2021.