Michaela Whitbourn

The telephone call Brittany Higgins secretly recorded with the Liberal senator has emerged as a flashpoint in Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation case.

The laws criminalised protest activities which led not only to the complete closure of major facilities such as ports and train stations but partial closures and redirections.

The former presenter on Network Ten’s The Project gave evidence in an at-times heated cross-examination in Bruce Lehrmann’s high-stakes defamation case.

The high-profile former presenter of Ten’s The Project was asked whether it was a “good idea” for Brittany Higgins’ partner David Sharaz to act as a conduit to her.

Homewares retailer Bed Bath N’ Table has won a misleading and deceptive conduct claim against the House homewares owner over its “Bed & Bath” branding.

The Federal Court released written submissions on Friday in the former Liberal staffer’s high-stakes defamation case against Ten and Lisa Wilkinson.

The days of high-profile Supreme Court defamation trials in front of juries appear numbered, new figures reveal. Just why are cases like those involving Bruce Lehrmann and Ben Roberts-Smith increasingly tried before a judge alone?

Helen Rosamond used money defrauded from the National Australia Bank to fund a lavish lifestyle including furnishing her Potts Point terrace.

The battle lines are drawn in the former SAS corporal’s appeal, which starts on Monday and will run for 10 days.

The war veteran’s barrister said that a killing may have been lawful even if a court found Australian soldiers planted a Taliban-issued object on an Afghan man’s body.

The former host of The Project is locked in a fight with Ten over whether it should cover the costs of her legal team during Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation case.

The newspapers defending former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation appeal say one of their key witnesses gave truthful evidence about a murder.

It was not clear at the time, but June 19, 2022, marked the beginning of the end for Network Ten and its star presenter Lisa Wilkinson.

Regional magistrates would no longer act as part-time coroners under a major modernisation that would create a standalone Coroners Court.

Lawyers for the former political staffer have analysed Brittany Higgins’ account of events when she signed a $2.4 million settlement with the Commonwealth.

What happened during those crucial minutes has sparked a frenzy of news, an aborted criminal trial and a multimillion-dollar lawsuit.

An accusation catapulted the ex-Liberal staffer into the public consciousness from the obscurity of former roles in government and at British American Tobacco.

Federal Court Justice Michael Lee has dismissed Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation case after finding Ten and Lisa Wilkinson had established on the balance of probabilities that Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins.

Justice Michael Lee “trudged unyieldingly” through CCTV footage, phone logs, bank records, receipts – and hours of testimony. This is how he arrived at his ruling that Bruce Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins.

Two NSW mothers are challenging police powers to enter their homes, often late at night, to check whether their children are complying with bail conditions.