The rape accusation made by Brittany Higgins against fellow Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann has turned into a wellspring of litigation. It’s a lawyers’ feast with replicating magic puddings.
Each new twist produces a corresponding litigious response. The latest contest is Shane Drumgold v Walter Sofronoff, heading to the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory. It was Sofronoff, a former Queensland judge, who wrote the report critical of the way the ACT’s outgoing director of public prosecutions conducted aspects of Lehrmann’s rape prosecution.
