The interlocutory hearing will return to the Federal Court in Sydney on Thursday. His legal team have argued that it was unreasonable for him to launch the case any earlier. Mr Whybrow is Mr Lehrmann's barrister in the defamation trial. Mr Lehrmann's interlocutory hearing on Thursday was about why it took him two years to file the defamation lawsuit.Īpplicants normally have 12 months after publication to file a defamation case, but Mr Lehrmann's case was filed two years later.
He was not named in the broadcast or article, but his statement of claim argues his identity would have been known in political circles. The broadcast and online article were published on February 15, 2021. In February, Mr Lehrmann filed defamation lawsuits against Channel 10, Lisa Wilkinson, and over two stories where Ms Higgins alleged a 'male colleague' had raped her in 2019.
This is old news so why the song and dance now?' 'It was a tweet from last year, after DPP dropped the charges. 'I'm confused about the "bombshell",' one user said. Some Twitter users wrote messages of support for Ms Higgins in the comments, but others asked why she re-tweeted Mr Whybrow's post from four months ago. He is also representing Mr Lehrmann in his defamation case against Channel 10, and Lisa Wilkinson Steven Whybrow was Bruce Lehrmann's defence lawyer during his rape trial. CCTV played before the court showed Mr Lehrmann and Ms Higgins leaving Parliament House at different times. The court also heard that Ms Higgins did not complain of any alleged assault before 1pm on Tuesday, March 26 - three days later. The court heard the cleaner did not 'destroy evidence' by steam cleaning the carpet or the couch where Ms Higgins slept.
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Mr Whybrow's tweet pointed to a number of elements heard in court the October trial - including that a cleaner was asked to do a routine clean of the ministerial suite where Ms Higgins was allegedly raped, the morning after the alleged assault. I took screenshots,' she said, above a screenshot of Mr Whybrow's tweet from December. The defence counsel Steve Whybrow has now made his tweets private.' Ms Higgins then commented on her own post: 'Hahah. When Ms Higgins shared the old tweet on Saturday, she said: 'So weird the defence counsel is casually tweeting about the Lehrmann case.'Ībout 45 minutes after the tweet was shared, Mr Whybrow's account was changed from public to private so users who did not follow him could not see the tweet she was referring to. Footage arriving and leaving was played,' he wrote. 'There are no cameras inside minister's offices.
Referring to a tweet by Mr Whybrow in December, Ms Higgins wrote on Saturday: 'So weird the defence counsel is casually tweeting about the Lehrmann case'
Because there was no complaint before Tuesday 1pm (Brittany Higgins' own evidence).' Mr Whybrow's tweet said: 'Because politicians didn't get cleaners in (an agreed fact). The question Mr Whybrow was responding to has since been deleted - so the context of his tweet is unknown - but that didn't stop Ms Higgins from rounding upon his response over the weekend. Mr Lehrmann has continually denied the allegations against him.įive days after the charge was dropped, Mr Whybrow used Twitter to respond to a question about Mr Lehrmann's case. The sexual assault charge was dropped by the ACT's Director of Public Prosecutions on December 2 due to concerns about Ms Higgins' mental health. He had pleaded not guilty during a jury trial in the ACT Supreme Court in October, but the hearing was aborted due to misconduct by a juror. Mr Lehrmann was accused of raping Ms Higgins in Parliament House in 2019. Ms Higgins took to Twitter on Saturday night to attack a post Mr Lehrmann's barrister Steven Whybrow wrote on December 7 last year, where Mr Whybrow spoke of a number of elements of the case that were heard in court during the rape trial two months prior. Brittany Higgins has launched a scathing attack on Bruce Lehrmann's defence lawyer after he tweeted about her criminal trial.
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