Team working through documents including more than 56,000 pages of information Australian federal police downloaded from Higgins’ phone
Lawyers for Liberal senator Linda Reynolds are poring over tens of thousands of pages of potential evidence taken from Brittany Higgins’ phone.
The former defence minister, who plans to retire from politics at the next election, is suing her former political staffer over a series of social media posts she says damaged her reputation.supreme court on Monday for a directions hearing ahead of an August trial. Senator Reynolds’ lawyer Martin Bennett said his team was working through documents Network Ten supplied on subpoena, including a report on Higgins’ mobile phone.
The documents are from Bruce Lehrmann’s failed defamation case against the media outlet and Lisa Wilkinson. “The Australian federal police download of Ms Higgins’ telephone, which is 56,287 pages,” he told reporters outside the court.Some of the pages could become evidence in the high-profile defamation battle, scheduled to start on August 2.Bennett said the documents, along with Senator Reynolds’ recent trip to Washington with a parliamentary delegation to the NATO summit, had slowed preparations but would not delay the trial.
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