A company owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, News Life
Media, has
agreed to pay some of the legal costs of the man formerly
accused of sexually assaulting Brittany Higgins in parliament,
after the Bruce Lehrmann
agreed to discontinue his claim for defamation.
According to News Life Media, which in turn owns news.com.au, no
damages will be paid, there will be no formal apology and the
material will remain published, with an editor's note.
Mr Lehrmann's defamation proceedings against Network Ten and
The ABC remain on foot.
The story so
far
Bruce Lehrmann brought the claim against News Life Media after
one of its journalists, Samantha Maiden, published
highly prejudicial information which essentially urged the
complainant to be believed, painting Mr Lehrmann as guilty of the
offence of sexual assault before a trial had even taken place.
