Lawyers for the Liberal senator threaten to take case to WA supreme court as they pursue an apology and damages over tweets
Lawyers for Liberal senator Linda Reynolds are seeking an apology and damages over tweets by David Sharaz, the partner of Brittany Higgins.Lawyers for Liberal senator Linda Reynolds are seeking an apology and damages over tweets by David Sharaz, the partner of Brittany Higgins.The Liberal senator Linda Reynolds has sent a formalDavid Sharaz, the partner of former government staffer Brittany Higgins, over tweets her lawyers claim caused damage that “cannot be underestimated”.
Lawyers for the Reynolds have threatened to take the case to Western Australia’s supreme court as they pursue an apology and damages from the journalist, claiming he made “inaccurate and professionally damaging” criticisms of her online. Reynolds was a cabinet minister and Higgins’s boss at the time the staffer claimed she was raped by colleague Bruce Lehrmann on a couch inside the minister’s Parliament House office in 2019. Higgins has been highly critical of Reynolds’s response to the allegations, claiming she felt pressure from the then minister not to pursue a police complaint.Lehrmann was charged but a trial was aborted late last year due to juror misconduct.
Lawyers for Reynolds, Perth firm Bennett, sent a concerns notice on 6 January to Sharaz, who lives in, under Western Australia’s Defamation Act. It raises concerns about two tweets, published to Sharaz’s Twitter account in January and December 2022, which reference Reynolds. The senator’s lawyers claim the tweets carried defamatory imputations that the senator bullied and continues to bully Higgins, that she interfered with the investigation and trial of criminal proceedings, and that she leaked privileged material regarding the compensation claim settled between Higgins and the federal government.
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