Lisa Wilkinson challenges finding she acted unreasonably in broadcasting Brittany Higgins’ rape allegation

Justice Michael Lee found the journalist, along with her then employer Network Ten, didn’t establish qualified privilege defence

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Lisa Wilkinson has challenged Justice Michael Lee’s finding that she acted unreasonably in broadcasting an allegation of rape, according to her submissions on a notice of contention filed in Bruce Lehrmann’s upcoming appeal.

Lehrmann lost his sprawling $10m defamation case last April when the former Liberal party staffer was found on the balance of probabilities to have raped Brittany Higgins in Parliament House in 2019. In October Lehrmann was allowed to appeal.

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