‘Mr Lehrmann raped Ms Higgins’: Judge dismisses Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation case against Network 10 and Lisa Wilkinson

Network 10 and Lisa Wilkinson have been found not guilty of defaming Bruce Lehrmann during a 2021 television interview with Brittany Higgins, and a subsequent Logies speech.

Lehrmann sued Channel Ten and Wilkinson over a 2021 interview with Higgins in which she said she was raped in Parliament House by a work colleague. Although Lehrmann was not named in the interview, he alleges details given during the broadcast made it clear he was the accused colleague, a claim which “utterly destroyed him”.

Lehrmann denied Higgins’ allegations in a criminal trial against him that was dropped last year, following juror misconduct.