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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Christopher Knaus

Shane Drumgold says Bruce Lehrmann prosecution inquiry failed to give him fair hearing and breached law

Shane Drumgold Bruce Lehrmann Sofronoff Act Sally Dowling SC Brittany Higgins Andrew Barr NSW Supreme Court Report New South Wales
The Sofronoff inquiry made ‘several serious findings of misconduct’ against Shane Drumgold, saying he ‘at times … lost objectivity and did not act with fairness and detachment’ throughout the prosecution of Bruce Lehrmann for the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins.
The Sofronoff inquiry made ‘several serious findings of misconduct’ against Shane Drumgold, saying he ‘at times … lost objectivity and did not act with fairness and detachment’ throughout the prosecution of Bruce Lehrmann for the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins. Composite: EPA / AAP

Outgoing ACT director of public prosecutions Shane Drumgold has alleged the Sofronoff inquiry failed to give him a fair hearing, denied him natural justice, breached the law and “gave rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias”.

On Tuesday, the ACT government revealed that Drumgold was mounting an application for judicial review of the damning findings made about his conduct by Walter Sofronoff KC during his inquiry into the prosecution of Bruce Lehrmann.

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