Lehrmann judgment will bring some comfort to sexual assault victims everywhere

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The judgment by Justice Michael Lee in finding Bruce Lehrmann was a rapist is a masterpiece of common sense and cut-through.

The judge was clear about that – he said Bruce Lehrmann’s account of events was “risible” and “inherently implausible” and that to “remark that Lehrmann is a poor witness is an exercise in understatement”.How strange it was to hear findings on a sexual assault matter in which the tables were turned.

Justice Lee found holes in the evidence of Higgins, too – he said he had “considerable doubts about the authenticity” of a photograph she produced of a bruise on her leg she said she had sustained during the sexual assault.Dominic Lorrimer Contemporaneous accounts and objective evidence such as CCTV footage of the drunken evening were given more weight than vague or self-serving witness accounts.

Lee poked light fun at the expense of the “Bumble date” Higgins abandoned in favour of hanging out with Lehrmann and colleagues on the night. He mocked the notion Lehrmann was such a workaholic he returned to Parliament House to revise question-time briefs at 1am on a Saturday after a drunken evening out.

 

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