Lawyers for former NRL star Jarryd Hayne are seeking to have a civil damages lawsuit against him dismissed, citing delays in the case.<\/p>\n
In 2024, Mr Hayne walked out of prison after his sexual assault convictions relating to a Newcastle woman were quashed on appeal.<\/p>\n
The woman alleged the former Parramatta Eels player sexually assaulted her in her Newcastle home on the night of the 2018 NRL grand final.<\/p>\n
The former rugby league star faced three criminal trials and two appeals over six years.<\/p>\n
Mr Hayne was first tried in 2020, which led to a hung jury after two days of deliberation.<\/p>\n
A year later, he was found guilty in a second trial, but the verdict was overturned on appeal in February 2022.<\/p>\n
A jury found him guilty in his third trial, which lasted two weeks in April 2023, after he pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexual intercourse without consent.<\/p>\n
In June last year, Jarryd Hayne won an appeal and walked out of prison after his rape convictions were overturned.<\/p>\n
In 2021, the woman launched civil proceedings, pursuing Mr Hayne in the Supreme Court for damages caused to her by the case.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Call to dismiss<\/p>\n
The matter was briefly mentioned in the Supreme Court in Sydney on Thursday.<\/p>\n
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Jarryd Hayne’s civil proceedings are before the NSW Supreme Court. (ABC News: Jak Rowland)<\/p>\n
During proceedings, Mr Hayne’s lawyer, Michael Short, told Registrar Jennifer Hedge that he wanted the case thrown out, due to delays.<\/p>\n
“I must say it is a long and well-publicised matter and there were criminal proceedings in relation to this matter,” Mr Short said.<\/p>\n
He then took issue with the time it had taken the woman’s legal team to serve a psychiatric report and other evidentiary statements.<\/p>\n
Mr Short said expert psychiatric evidence was served six weeks after it was ordered to be produced.<\/p>\n
“It is a manifest failure to comply with the court’s timetable,” he said.<\/p>\n
“The bottom line is that we have filed an application to dismiss these proceedings.”<\/p>\n
The woman’s barrister, Hugo Thomas-Dubler, told the registrar he could produce the remaining expert evidence by January 16.<\/p>\n
He said that the evidence related to what he called a “forensic account”.<\/p>\n
The case returns to the Supreme Court on February 24.<\/p>\n
On that day, a date will be set for a half-day hearing in relation to the application to dismiss the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lawyers for former NRL star Jarryd Hayne are seeking to have a civil damages lawsuit against him dismissed,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,32287,1783,1108,189475,80159,761,762,158,189476,85],"class_list":["post-341021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-civil","tag-compensation","tag-court","tag-damges","tag-jarryd-hayne","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sexual-assault-case-against-nrl-star","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341021","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=341021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}