Ten, who called an expert lip-reader to give evidence in the case, put to Lehrmann that the words he said at this point were “all hers, all hers”. Lehrmann denied uttering those words.
Paraphrasing Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Whybrow said his client had been subjected to a form of “sentence first, trial later”.
Trip to Parliament House
During closing submissions on Thursday, the barristers for Ten and Wilkinson suggested Lee had sufficient evidence to find that Higgins and Lehrmann had sex in Parliament House in the early hours of Saturday, March 23, 2019. Lehrmann has always maintained, including during his aborted criminal trial, that no sexual activity occurred at all, while Higgins says it was not consensual.
Whybrow said neither of the chief protagonists in the case had said in their evidence that they went back to Parliament House for any kind of “amorous activity”. He said that even if they went back to the office with that intention it didn’t mean that it happened.
Sexual assault charge dropped
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Lehrmann’s ACT Supreme Court trial for sexual assault was aborted last year due to juror misconduct. The charge against Lehrmann was later dropped altogether owing to concerns about Higgins’ mental health.
Ex-chief of staff’s call to ASIO
Documents released by the Federal Court on Thursday reveal that Fiona Brown, the former chief of staff to Liberal senator and then defence industry minister Linda Reynolds, told the court she contacted the ASIO director-general about Lehrmann after he accessed the parliamentary office after hours.
In an affidavit filed in Lehrmann’s defamation case, Brown, who was chief of staff to ..
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