The biggest loser
It takes special talent to go backwards on an appeal, but that's what happened to Bruce Lehrmann this week.
Could Bruce Lehrmann be the biggest loser in the history of Australian defamation law?
Like his main rival for that title, ex-SAS commando and Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith, the former political staffer risked it all on a media outlet not being able to prove its case.
In Roberts-Smith’s case, it was that he was a murderer, a war criminal and a liar. For Lehrmann, it was that he was a rapist and a liar.
BRS has arguably suffered the greater fall from grace, given his status as a decorated war hero and former Father of the Year.
