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Miklos Bolza

Villain or vindicated: judgment looms for Lehrmann

Bruce Lehrmann will find out this week if his defamation case has been successful. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS)

Almost exactly five years after being accused of allegedly raping Brittany Higgins in a Parliament House office, Bruce Lehrmann will learn whether he has been vindicated in a high-cost, high-stakes legal fight to clear his name.

In one of Australia's highest-profile defamation cases, the 28-year-old battled Network Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson over on-air reports of an alleged rape and the parliamentary cover-up that allegedly ensued.

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