The Australian’s columnist Janet Albrechtsen was not an “advocate” for Bruce Lehrmann who “infected” the head of an inquiry into his prosecution with bias, a court has heard.
Albrechtsen’s 273 communications with Walter Sofronoff, including a private lunch in Brisbane, are at the centre of a legal challenge by the former ACT director of prosecution Shane Drumgold, who wants to quash the inquiry’s adverse findings against him.