A Canberra gang rape leader will ask the High Court to quash his convictions by arguing COVID-19 emergency laws, which deprived him of the right to a jury trial in the ACT, were constitutionally invalid.
Saimoni "Simon" Vunilagi, 33, is serving a jail sentence of six years, three months and 14 days after former ACT chief justice Helen Murrell found him found guilty of eight charges laid over a November 2019 incident.
