September
Peta Credlin had hand in Higgins’ statement, trial told
Sky News political commentator Peta Credlin helped Brittany Higgins draft a statement outlining the former staffer’s plan to reform how parliament handled sexual harassment, a trial has been told.
- Aaron Bunch
Reynolds picked wrong target in Higgins defamation suit
Brittany Higgins’ barrister said she spoke out about her alleged rape in parliament to ensure nobody experienced a similar ordeal, not to traumatise her former boss.
- Aaron Bunch
August
Morrison feared ‘fatal outcome’ for Reynolds in Higgins saga
Scott Morrison told a court he saw Senator Linda Reynolds stressed during debate over Brittany Higgins’ rape allegations, and worried it would kill her.
- Tom Rabe and Tom McIlroy
Keating takes swipe at Pelosi after she calls him ‘stupid’
Paul Keating says Nancy Pelosi doesn’t share Australia’s interests; Scott Morrison tells court he feared Linda Reynolds could have died. How the day unfolded.
- Updated
- Lucy Slade
- Opinion
- Rear Window
With friends like PwC, who needs enemies?
Kristin Stubbins does not seem assured her former employer necessarily has her best interests at heart.
- Max Mason
Reynolds’ claims ‘retraumatising’ Higgins, court told
Lawyers for Brittany Higgins have hit back at claims she cast Senator Linda Reynolds as a villain in an imaginary fairytale, calling them “harassing”.
- Tom Rabe
June
PwC still paying for bungled tax leaks response
PwC is now paying the price for forcibly ushering several partners out the door.
- Max Mason
June
- Exclusive
- Defamation nation
AMP’s royal commission executive sues The Australian newspaper
AMP’s former head of advice, “Jack” Regan, claimed an article imputed he misled ASIC and admitted to misleading ASIC during the Hayne banking royal commission.
- Ronald Mizen
May
- Exclusive
- Courts
Former PwC partner sues firm for allegedly linking him to tax scandal
Richard Gregg alleges people have shunned and avoided him because of an implication by PwC that he was involved in the tax leaks scandal, when he was not.
- Updated
- Max Mason
Ten and Wilkinson win order for Lehrmann to pay up
Justice Michael Lee ordered Bruce Lehrmann to pay most of Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson’s court costs – but had strong words for Ten’s conduct.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Ten settles its Lehrmann bill, but from a shrinking purse
New accounts show Ten had almost $1 million set aside for litigation and legal bills before the Bruce Lehrmann defamation matter officially began.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Bruce Lehrmann given extension to appeal but will be forced to pay
The former Liberal staffer has appointed barrister Guy Reynolds, SC, to review his case. He has until May 31 to lodge an appeal.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Judge in Lehrmann case slams Ten lawyer’s ‘misleading’ interviews
Justice Michael Lee criticises Ten’s lawyer as he determines how much Bruce Lehrmann should pay in costs; Albanese pledges almost $1 billion for domestic violence victims. Here’s how the day unfolded.
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- Tess Bennett
April
Bruce Lehrmann rejected offer to settle, should pay all costs: Ten
Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson offered to settle with Bruce Lehrmann in August last year. He rejected it within two hours.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Higgins must accept there was no cover-up: Reynolds
Senator Linda Reynolds will proceed with her defamation lawsuit unless Brittany Higgins and David Sharaz accept Federal Court findings there was no cover-up of rape.
- Ronald Mizen
- Exclusive
- Lehrmann trial
Lehrmann judge queries Ten lawyer’s criticism
Lawyer Justin Quill says the way defamation trials pick apart journalists’ work is “divorced from reality”.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
A rape, a cover-up narrative and a political firestorm
“Tonight, claims of rape, roadblocks to a police investigation, and a young woman forced to choose between her career and the pursuit of justice”. That is how Ten introduced its interview with Brittany Higgins.
- Ronald Mizen
- Updated
- Lehrmann trial
Higgins, Sharaz should settle with ‘vindicated’ Reynolds: Dutton
The opposition leader says Brittany Higgins and her fiancé David Sharaz should settle the senator’s defamation actions against them and issue a “full apology”.
- Ronald Mizen
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Forensic judgment proves rape, debunks political cover-up
Justice Lee’s factual pushback at some of the unthinking cultural warfare that has overwhelmed politics and media in recent times has performed a great service.
- The AFR View
The Lehrmann judgment’s best line wears many hats
Who wouldn’t want credit for the line that more than any other will come to characterise this trial?
- Updated
- Myriam Robin