Brittany Higgins has said she is willing to be called as a witness to 'defend the truth' in civil court after Bruce Lehrmann's lawyers revealed he is considering defamation proceedings following criminal charges against him being dropped. 9News
"Mark O'Brien Legal is acting on behalf of Bruce Lehrmann... over a number of public statements, broadcasts, articles and social media posts concerning the recently discontinued criminal proceedings against him," the statement said.
The firm's founder Mark Geoffrey O'Brien is a prominent lawyer with more than 40 years experience managing cases to do with the media and defamation. He is one of the lawyers representing former SAS soldier Ben Roberts-Smith in his defamation case against the Nine newspapers.Continue reading
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