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Bruce Lehrmann wins right to appeal
Oct 23rd, 2024 at 9:30am
 
Bruce Lehrmann allowed to continue appeal in failed defamation action as judge pauses $2m costs order
Lehrmann has sought to appeal against his defamation loss to Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson but his lawyer said he was unable to afford his legal costs

The federal court has ruled Bruce Lehrmann will be allowed to continue his appeal against the dismissal of his defamation suit against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson.

On Wednesday Justice Wendy Abraham paused a costs order of $2m made by Justice Michael Lee against Lehrmann after the trial “until the appeal in the proceeding”.

She also denied Ten’s application for a $200,000 security of costs order ahead of the upcoming appeal.

“I order the interlocutory application of the respondent [Ten] stated 21 June, 2024 be dismissed,” she said.

Her reasons will follow after they have been published.

Lehrmann is appealing his defamation loss against Ten and Wilkinson but was unemployed and unable to pay his legal costs, his lawyer had told the court.

He launched an appeal after a defamation trial judge ruled in favour of Network Ten, finding on the balance of probabilities that Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins at Parliament House.

Lehrmann had argued there was a genuine public interest in allowing an appeal and a risk that if the security of costs is granted it may abort the appeal.

In April, Lee found Lehrmann was not defamed by Wilkinson and Ten when The Project broadcast an interview with Brittany Higgins on 15 February 2021 in which she alleged she was raped by a staffer.

Lee found on the balance of probabilities Lehrmann raped Higgins on a minister’s couch in Parliament House in 2019.

Lehrmann has always denied the rape allegation and pleaded not guilty at his criminal trial in the Australian Capital Territory supreme court which was aborted. Prosecutors did not seek a retrial due to concerns about Higgins’s mental health.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/23/bruce-lehrmann-appeal-def...


Interesting, this case will probably be in the headlines around the time of next year's Federal election.

Will this help or hinder either political side?




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Reply #1 - Oct 23rd, 2024 at 9:34am
 
There is no price or time limit on justice.

Neither Ten nor Wilkinson show in any good light for being so crass as to seek to prevent a legitimate appeal through imposing financial burdens.  That is, frankly, as weak as piss.

Aren't they lucky I wasn't the judge - but clearly this female judge sees things clearly - some do, you know.  Many are scum of some kind who should never be permitted to judge on anything.

I hope this case sinks both political sides, given their own crass failures in regard to legal rights and simple truth here.  Groveling to the Pussy is not the proper way to go - you deal with reality by bowing down to facts that are provable.

I don't know if Deuce (let's just call him Deuce) is guilty or not of rape... the chance is just as good that he isn't ... and the lack of evidence shows no way of ever knowing.... so the decision was wrong by Lee.... nothing more than a sycophantic, crying, prejudiced, discriminatory 'white knight' attempt to look the hero while actually being the villain.  Such a man would cheerfully have sent millions to the gas chambers on assumptions and prejudice.

I'll bet Lee doesn't even begin, in his comfort zone  ivory tower, to see the comparison.  Lee:- "Must be an enemy of the state - he's been denounced, has piggy eyes, and is of a specific type.... must be an enemy of the state and the baying mob at the gates will applaud me and my actions will prevent public riots."

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Reply #2 - Oct 23rd, 2024 at 10:26am
 
I still think Lisa Wilkinson should have got jail time for contempt of court.

As for Lehrmann? He seems to be a creep, but it begs the question: why would he persist in this case unless he was indeed innocent?

Is it a case of over enthusiastic haters of the Liberal party working to influence the removal of ScoMo or was the ALP up to its neck in this whole episode?

Will the truth ever come out?
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Reply #3 - Oct 23rd, 2024 at 12:21pm
 
Captain Nemo wrote on Oct 23rd, 2024 at 10:26am:
I still think Lisa Wilkinson should have got jail time for contempt of court.

As for Lehrmann? He seems to be a creep, but it begs the question: why would he persist in this case unless he was indeed innocent?

Is it a case of over enthusiastic haters of the Liberal party working to influence the removal of ScoMo or was the ALP up to its neck in this whole episode?

Will the truth ever come out?


All good issues.  yes - Wilkinson should not get a pussy pass over that contempt.  I don't want to see anyone punished unfairly - at this stage that includes Bruce who may well be a sleeze or something - but I have zero way of knowing that or what actually took place.

Nobody has come out of this smelling like roses - and it is only fair that his appeal go forward.  Clearly there is a public interest in resolving that a person never found guilty, and  even accused only on the very flimsiest of evidence, in a 'trial' which only ever took place due to unwarranted pressure to look good over 'women's issues', should be found to have perpetrated a crime via a civil standard - which - again on that evidence - was at the very least neutral and had zero balance of probability either way.

In which reality event - Deuce was defamed, made unemployable and broke bust.

Prejudice on the part of a 'judge' must not be permitted to colour decisions.... I know it does  - but nothing will make it right.  If they can't do the job - they should stand down or be stood down at the slightest hint of prejudice or discrimination.  If they lack the courage to do the job properly they have no place on the bench.

Clearly they have no souls .... the Imperial Guild Of Soul-less Assassins - just personal self-aggrandisement and petty gripes against the world in far too many cases.... still today.... 'overcome by lust' thundering from the pulpit.... 'MEN (bu only the lesser classes, of course, not US) are driven by LUST!'... what a load of poppycock from an altar boy.

Every time We the People, think that policing and jurisprudence have taken some positive steps - they go backwards again.

Royal Commission into Judiciary and into Jurisprudence!!

Drain The Billabongs!.... starting at the top!!  Politicians - learn some self-respect and common decency... we all know your over-easy life makes it hard to keep your honour and perspective - such as they may have ever been - but get a life and do your jobs without constantly looking for the side perks such as pussy etc.  Surely you can keep your minds out of your and her panties long enough to do your jobs first.... and respect your spouses and families!

I never promised you a rose garden and it's time you felt the thorns...
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Reply #4 - Oct 23rd, 2024 at 12:28pm
 
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Reply #5 - Oct 24th, 2024 at 12:51pm
 
Grappler Racist Filth wrote on Oct 23rd, 2024 at 9:34am:
There is no price or time limit on justice.

Neither Ten nor Wilkinson show in any good light for being so crass as to seek to prevent a legitimate appeal through imposing financial burdens.  That is, frankly, as weak as piss.


Finally, you found some examples of Lawfare!

Took you long enough.
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Reply #6 - Oct 24th, 2024 at 2:11pm
 

'Having escaped the lions' den, he made the mistake of going back for his hat. '     Smiley
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Reply #7 - Oct 24th, 2024 at 2:26pm
 
With any luck, they'll add a another couple of hundred thousand to his legal bill.
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