{"id":128341,"date":"2025-09-08T18:33:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/128341\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T18:33:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:33:04","slug":"bruce-lehrmann-lodges-legal-action-against-government-in-federal-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/128341\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Lehrmann lodges legal action against government in Federal Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann has lodged a new application against the government in the Federal Court.<\/p>\n

The application targets the Special Minister of State, Don Farrell, and the Commissioner of the National Anti-Corruption Commission, Paul Brereton.<\/p>\n

The application is for judicial review, although there are no details about the background.<\/p>\n

Mr Lehrmann is still waiting for a result in his appeal against a ruling in his failed defamation case against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson over an interview with Brittany Higgins.<\/p>\n

During the interview Ms Higgins revealed allegations that she had been raped at Parliament House in 2019.<\/p>\n

Mr Lehrmann faced a jury trial in the ACT, but it was abandoned due to juror misconduct, leaving no findings against him.<\/p>\n

He took the matter to the Federal Court, claiming he was defamed by Ten and Lisa Wilkinson in the program.<\/p>\n

But the court found on the balance of probabilities<\/a> he did rape Ms Higgins on the night in question, ending the defamation case.<\/p>\n

In his recent appeal<\/a>, Mr Lehrmann sought to overturn the ruling.<\/p>\n

It’s not known when the court will rule on the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann has lodged a new application against the government in the Federal Court. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2666,89590,64,63,76251,2667,89592,70,89589,44,89593,89591],"class_list":["post-128341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-act","tag-anti-corruption-minister","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bruce","tag-canberra","tag-don-farrell","tag-federal-court","tag-lehrmann","tag-news","tag-paul-bereton","tag-special-minister-of-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}