More than 56,000 pages of Brittany Higgins' mobile telephone records downloaded by the Australian Federal Police volition signifier a captious portion of the litigation brought against her by Senator Linda Reynolds.
The documents were primitively produced for the Bruce Lehrmann defamation proceedings against Network 10 and volition beryllium utilized successful the defamation lawsuit against Ms Higgins, which is acceptable to spell to proceedings connected August 2.
Senator Reynolds' lawyer Martin Bennett told reporters extracurricular tribunal they needed to find pages that were applicable to the case, and would beryllium utilized successful a antithetic position to the substance involving Mr Lehrmann and Network 10.
'Our lawsuit is somewhat different, we request to look astatine it again,' helium said.
'Already we tin spot determination are documents wrong it that are utile and request to beryllium pulled.'
Lawyers for Ms Higgins and Senator Reynolds were successful the WA Supreme Court connected Monday for a directions proceeding 2 weeks up of the trial.
Senator Reynolds is suing her erstwhile staffer implicit claims societal media posts made by Ms Higgins and her hubby David Sharaz damaged her reputation.
She claims the posts suggested she had engaged successful a governmental cover-up of Ms Higgins' allegations that she had been raped astatine Parliament House by her workfellow Bruce Lehrmann, a assertion helium has ever denied.
Senator Reynolds is suing her erstwhile staffer implicit claims societal media posts made by Ms Higgins damaged her reputation
Justice Michael Lee's findings
In the Federal Court earlier this year, Justice Michael Lee ruled helium was convinced to a civilian modular - which is antithetic to a transgression modular - connected the equilibrium of probabilities Ms Higgins was raped.
The uncovering came pursuing ineligible enactment Mr Lehrmann brought against Network 10 and writer Lisa Wilkinson implicit a study astir the alleged rape connected The Project programme successful 2021.
Mr Lehrmann is appealing the decision.
Justice Lee besides recovered claims of a governmental cover-up involving Senator Reynolds and others were not true, a uncovering Senator Reynolds said vindicated her.
Ms Reynolds told reporters she needed to wide her name, and that Justice Lee was precise wide determination was ne'er immoderate governmental conspiracy and that 'many people's lives had been destroyed successful the fallout of Ms Higgins' allegations.
'There was simply ne'er immoderate governmental conspiracy and determination was surely the allegations of mistreatment arsenic the grounds successful the Lee proceedings has perfectly demonstrated,' she said.
Brittany Higgins ' mobile telephone records volition signifier a captious portion of the litigation brought against her
Criminal trial
In October 2022, a transgression proceedings successful the ACT Supreme Court against Mr Lehrmann was aborted due to the fact that of assemblage misconduct.
Mr Lehrmann had pleaded not blameworthy to the charge.
A mistrial was declared and the assemblage was dismissed aft it was discovered 1 of the jurors had conducted their ain probe extracurricular of what was presented successful court.
The proceedings was relisted for February 2023, but was abandoned and the complaint dropped erstwhile the Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold recovered different proceedings would airs an unacceptable hazard to Ms Higgins' intelligence health.
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