In short: Bruce Lehrmann has lodged a notice of appeal with the Federal Court after a ruling in his failed defamation case that on the balance of probabilities he did rape Brittany Higgins at ...

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Justice Lee on Monday ruled, on the balance of probabilities, that Mr Lehrmann had raped Ms Higgins and, as such, Ten and Wilkinson had established their truth defence as part of a two-pronged ...

The “trial of the decade” is over; Bruce Lehrmann has lost. In a two-and-a-half-hour summary, Justice Michael Lee found the former Liberal party staffer did, on the balance of probabilities, rape his ...

A law imposing a ‘balance of probabilities’ standard of proof on an accused who claims they made a “reasonable mistake” a complainant was aged over 17 in certain sexual offence cases involving older ...

Former England cricket captain Michael Vaughan was Friday cleared "on the balance of probabilities" of using racist language before a match for county club Yorkshire in 2009.