After 14 months, dozens of witnesses, weeks of hearings and sordid allegations of prostitutes, cocaine and corporate credit card spending, the blockbuster defamation case between Bruce Lehrmann and Network Ten has a judgment day: Monday, April 15.

At 10.15am in courtroom 18B in Sydney’s Law Courts Building, Federal Court Justice Michael Lee will deliver a verbal and written summary of his decision, which will decide whether Network Ten and its former star journalist Lisa Wilkinson defamed Mr Lehrmann.