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Maeve Bannister

Lehrmann inquiry exposes delicate balance of justice

Lawyers for Bruce Lehrmann say he was convicted in the media before his rape trial even started. Photo: AAP

After 13 days of public hearings, nine witnesses and the receipt of more than 100,000 documents, an inquiry is about to consider what went wrong during Canberra’s biggest trial in years.

When ex-Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins went public with an allegation she was raped by her former colleague Bruce Lehrmann inside a minister’s office at Parliament House, it sparked an unprecedented chain of events.

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