![]() ![]() That is the issue with which Louise Milligan grapples in her 2020 book, Witness, written long before the Lehrmann trial. It’s a classic example of the dilemma that confronts our courts in the trial of alleged sexual offenders – how can defence counsel, whose professional duty is to raise a reasonable doubt in the jury’s mind about the evidence of the complainant, avoid retraumatising often vulnerable people in the course of gruelling cross-examination? Last week, the ACT’s Director of Public Prosecutions announced that there would be no retrial of Bruce Lehrmann because it would pose a “significant and unacceptable risk to the life of the complainant”, Brittany Higgins. The latest attacks on ABC journalist Louise Milligan show that ‘cancel culture’ is alive and well at The Australian and Sky News, aided and abetted by the federal opposition’s shadow communications minister. ![]()
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