Lawyers for the ACT's former top prosecutor are seeking to expose communications between a high-profile journalist and the man investigating his conduct.
Bruce Lehrmann says he plans to sue the ACT government, which is dealing with the fall-out from the leaking of a report into the handling of his rape case.
The Sofronoff report into the Higgins/Lehrmann trial will not be released for another month, but the Canberra Liberals have called on the ACT Government to release it immediately.
After 13 days of public hearings, nine witnesses and the receipt of more than 100,000 documents, an inquiry is about to consider what went wrong during Canberra's biggest trial in years.
It was sad to see Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold give his evidence and, under questioning, change that evidence on a number of occasions.
ACT Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold will take leave as his role in the aborted rape trial of Bruce Lehrmann comes under intense scrutiny.
For a week, the ACT's chief prosecutor has faced the uncustomary position of a grilling in the witness box as his actions during the rape trial of ex-Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann are put under the microscope.
