Lawyers for the man accused of raping Brittany Higgins have asked to delay his trial citing “extraordinary” comments by Lisa Wilkinson endorsing Higgins’ credibility that they claim are “clearly a contempt of court”.
McCallum refused a bid for suppression orders to prevent further publications about the case – a decision she rued at Tuesday’s hearing as based on a “misplaced” trust in the press and the law of contempt to prevent further prejudice. “The implicit premise of the speech was to celebrate the truthfulness of the story she [Wilkinson] exposed.
McCallum noted in previous hearings she had issued “stern warnings” to the media about its reporting, but her trust had been “missplaced”. “You were right, and I was wrong.” Drumgold said that Wilkinson’s opinion of Higgins’ story “hadn’t changed”, and had been ventilated previously including at the March 2021 March for Justice.
Drumgold said that prosecutors, the defence and court all spoke “with one voice” that media coverage had been “completely undesirable”, but the test for the trial delay is whether jurors were exposed to the comments and whether prejudice could be remedied by directions to the jury.
Why not use the jury from Depp-Heard? Impervious to outside influence, apparently
It’s all about Lisa Wilkinson and money, and Peter Fitzsimon’s and money. They live on a 3004 sqm estate, with two tennis courts, pool and not a solar panel in sight. Imagines the rates are high and due soon. They are bottomfeeders brittanyhiggins LisaWilkinson auspol
deep pockets
the logies was viewed by less people then a segment on sky news and that's pretty low numbers. i don't watch much tv and no one i knows does , we all have lives that exist outside advertising and the ch9 murdochracy being fed to the people of aus,
I didn’t know anything about the Logies until lawyers for Brittany Higgins accused asked to delay trial. When was his name mentioned most on social media? Between Logies and lawyer announcement or after lawyer announcement? Have his lawyers created this situation?
How does Wilkinson not get punished for what is presumably a costly disruption to the court process?
Wilkinson would get a gig on a new reality show called Australia’s biggest idiot and win it hands down.
Lisa_Wilkinson should have accepted award and made no speech other than a thank you. Anything else this close to the case being heard was a risk. brittanyhiggins Logies2022
If he's innocent why wouldn't he want this to be over?
Well Lisa well done it’s not about you and some Mickey Mouse Award .I hope you apologise to Brittany for your self indulgence . That prick might not go to jail because of you.
Get over it man, no one watches the Logies anyway.
No conflict of interest is there? Wilkinson and the pirate have their dirty hands all over this!
There was nothing that Lisa said that would have any impact on a fair trial for the defendant, it’s just an excuse and they need to get on with it
An innocent man would move heaven and earth to declare his innocence in court, a guilty man will delay for any reason whatsoever
She's being rewarded for her opinion pieces rather than her ability as a journalist and now her drive for virtue has likely caused a mistrial....the irony.
Lisa Wilkinson should be on trial for miscarriage of justice.