‘This judgement is a triumph for truth’: Network 10 reacts to Lehrmann decision
Network 10 has released a statement regarding Bruce Lerhmann’s unsuccessful defamation suit against the broadcaster, calling it “a triumph for truth”.
Lehrmann sued Channel Ten and Lisa Wilkinson over a 2021 interview with Brittany Higgins and a subsuquent Logies speech that he said identified him as an alleged rapist, a claim which “utterly destroyed him”.
On Monday afternoon, Justice Michael Lee dismissed the case, finding that on the balance of probability, Lehrmann raped Higgins.
The judgement was far from a ringing endorsement of 10’s or Ms Wilkinson’s journalistic standards; the opposite in fact