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High Court refuses to hear Bruce Lehrmann's appeal
Bruce Lehrmann was found by Justice Michael Lee, on the balance of probabilities, to have raped Brittany Higgins. (AAP: Steve Markham)
The High Court has dismissed former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann's bid to challenge the outcome of his failed defamation case.
The Federal Court had ruled that on the balance of probabilities, Mr Lehrmann did rape Brittany Higgins at Parliament House in 2019.
The High Court was his last legal avenue to challenge the outcome.
Mr Lehrmann had sued Network Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson over a 2021 interview on The Project featuring Ms Higgins, in which she said she was raped in the office of then-senator Linda Reynolds, but did not name the man she was accusing.
Bruce Lehrmann loses last-ditch legal effort to appeal defamation case against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson
The high court has dismissed his bid to clear his name of findings that, on the balance of probabilities, he raped Brittany Higgins in Parliament House in 2019
Bruce Lehrmann has lost his last legal avenue to challenge his failed defamation case against Network 10 and Lisa Wilkinson after Australia’s top court dismissed his case.
The high court dismissed his bid to challenge the outcome in a short judgment published to its website on Thursday.
It comes after Lehrmann lost an appeal against the finding last year.
In April 2024, Justice Michael Lee found that on the balance of probabilities Lehrmann raped former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins in parliament house in 2019, and that Lehrmann was therefore not defamed when Wilkinson interviewed Higgins about the case on The Project.
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