Justice Michael Lee spent two-and-a-half hours delivering an oral summary of his 324-page judgment in the defamation case brought by Bruce Lehrmann against Channel Ten and Lisa Wilkinson.
The judgment was incredibly nuanced, with Lee seeking to draw “fine distinctions based upon the subtleties of the evidence”. But it was also characterised by Lee’s penchant for a creatively turned phrase, drawing laughter from the gallery at a number of points.
