‘Punitive’: Reynolds accuses attorney-general of prejudice over Lehrmann inquiry

The former Coalition minister at the centre of the Brittany Higgins saga has accused Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus of denying her funding for legal assistance throughout the inquiry into Bruce Lehrmann’s trial for political reasons.

Linda Reynolds has accused Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus of prejudice over legal funding for the Lehrmann inquiry.Reynolds, as defence industry minister at the time, was the boss of Bruce Lehrmann and Brittany Higgins when the latter alleged she had been raped by Lehrmann in her ministerial office. But she said Dreyfus had no justification to “personally pick and choose what parts of eligible legal assistance I receive” during the inquiry, in which her name was brought up persistently over several days.

In a May 30 letter, on the second last day of the scheduled hearing period, Dreyfus refused assistance for Reynolds’ ongoing involvement, saying while some issues in the probe related to Reynolds’ former ministerial duties, “other issues ... could relate to your actions that are unrelated to your former ministerial duties”.

“The serious allegation that I had participated in such a conspiracy and had acted in a manner so as to pervert the course of justice remained unchallenged, and would have remained unchallenged but for the intervention of Mr Sofronoff KC,” Reynolds said.

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