Former defence minister Linda Reynolds will learn on Wednesday whether she has succeeded in her defamation case against her ex-staffer Brittany Higgins, in one of the most closely watched legal battles to flow from the Parliament House rape saga.
Justice Paul Tottle is due to deliver his decision in the WA Supreme Court this morning, after a bruising five weeks last year that laid bare years of political, personal and legal fallout.
What the judge decides will echo far beyond the courtroom. For Reynolds, it’s a chance to restore reputation. For Higgins, it’s about her right to continue speaking out about institutional responses to sexual assault.
The case originated after Higgins alleged she was raped by fellow staffer Bruce Lehrmann inside Reynolds’ ministerial office in Canberra’s Parliament House in March, 2019.
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