Bruce Lehrmann has cancelled his headline speaking role at June’s “Restoring the Presumption of Innocence” conference in the wake of his defamation trial judgment, as survivor advocacy groups label the event “cooked”.
Before Justice Michael Lee found that, on the balance of probability, Lehrmann raped his former colleague Brittany Higgins in Parliament House in 2019, Lehrmann was due to appear at the conference as a “poster boy for trial by media”.