On Sunday, 7News Spotlight will be speaking with Bruce Lehrmann, the man accused of the sexual assault of Brittany Higgins in Parliament House.
The case has been one of the most controversial legal sagas in recent history, and on Sunday Lehrmann sits down with 7News Spotlight’s Liam Bartlett to tell his side of the story for the first time.
Seven has said that nothing will be off limits, as he answers questions about what happened when he entered a ministerial suite with Brittany Higgins in the early hours of Saturday, 23 March, 2019.
The announcement comes after Lehrmann dropped his legal proceedings against News Corp after reaching an out-of-court settlement. He was taking defamation action against both News Life Media – publisher of news.com.au – and Samantha Maiden, news.com.au’s national political editor.
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In the News Corp case, Lehrmann claimed that he was identifiable in two news.com.au articles reporting on the March 2019 allegation that Brittany Higgins was sexually assaulted in Parliament House. Those two articles have now been updated with an editor’s note that reads “news.com.au notes that a criminal charge of sexual assault was brought against Mr Lehrmann and later dropped. News.com.au does not suggest that he was guilty of that charge.”
Lehrmann has also been taking defamation action against Network 10 and journalist Lisa Wilkinson. The proceedings came in the wake of Lehrmann’s trial being pushed back by ACT Supreme Court Chief Justice Lucy McCallum following a speech Wilkinson gave at the Logies about her interview with Higgins.