Reynolds’ lawyer Martin Bennett used the final day of his closing address on Wednesday to take the WA Supreme Court through a series of exchanges between Higgins and her now-husband David Sharaz.
Linda Reynolds made a shock appearance just before 11am,sitting in the front row of the public gallery before her lawyer lambasted Brittany Higgins for “trivialising” his client’s suffering and revealed a high-profile anchor finessed one of her public addresses.
Brittany Higgins’ lawyer has branded former defence minister Linda Reynolds’ defamation action as having the lowest of motives,and attacked the reliability of her testimony.
From diary entries to text messages with senior political figures and journalists,lawyers for Liberal Senator Linda Reynolds and Brittany Higgins have pored over the final documents to become evidence in their defamation row.
Linda Reynolds’ lawyers have lost a bid to grill Brittany Higgins’ doctor after claiming to have uncovered two “materially different” psychiatric reports inked on the same day,one of which underpinned the former staffer’s $2.4 million payout.
Interview recordings and a flurry of texts filed in Linda Reynolds’ defamation row with Brittany Higgins have laid bare what unfolded before the publication of a rape allegation that sparked a cultural reckoning.
Marise Payne has described watching Liberal Senator Linda Reynolds shaking,breathing heavily and gripping her desk amid questioning over Brittany Higgins’ alleged rape,a saga Anne Ruston said brought Reynolds “to her knees”.
Former staffer Brittany Higgins will no longer be called to take the stand in WA Liberal Senator Linda Reynolds’ defamation lawsuit against her after her lawyers considered it unnecessary.
In a bombshell dropped on Monday afternoon,Higgins’ lawyer Rachael Young,SC,told the court the 29-year-old would no longer be called to take the witness stand.
There are fresh doubts over whether the then-chief of staff of the office that was the scene of the alleged rape will be fit to take the stand in Reynolds’ defamation row.
Ex-political staffer remembers call over whether to alert police to the security breach during which Brittany Higgins later alleged she was raped.