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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Tory Shepherd

Bruce Lehrmann cancels headline speaking role at ‘presumption of innocence’ conference

Bruce Lehrmann
Bruce Lehrmann lost his defamation case against Network Ten, bringing to an end a sprawling legal saga that gripped the nation. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

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”.

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