456 It’s value pausing at this point within the narrative to make a miscellaneous level related to Mr Lehrmann’s credit score. Although I strongly suspect that further joint drinking did happen within the Ministerial Suite, it’s unnecessary for me to make a constructive discovering. I hasten to add that I have little doubt his senior counsel acted in accordance with acceptable ethical constraints on the criminal trial, and so it should observe he didn’t apprise his personal trial lawyers as to the true place. Moreover, it was a lie that had critical consequences, because with information of the reality, he allowed his denial of getting alcohol in his office to go uncorrected throughout his criminal trial, and allowed submissions to be advanced to the jury that the account he had given to police was truthful and accurate (T202.1-3). 562 The submissions of all events have been lower than helpful in relation to this facet of the case. 301 The parties accept these had been comments about Mr Payne. At trial, Mr Payne augmented some details of a dialog with Ms Brown absent from earlier accounts which, collectively with his manner of giving this evidence, leads me to deal with his account of his communications with Ms Brown with some hesitation.
298 It occurred throughout a conversation between Ms Higgins and Mr Payne, probably on 28 March 2019, which Mr Payne had initiated after Mr Payne had observed Ms Higgins was teary and upset. I let her acquire herself because she was very upset. She was very upset at that time. It’s price noting that the AFP officers Ms Brown assisted Ms Higgins in seeing promptly are (even now) described by Ms Higgins as having been “great and were really lovely to me”, “superb” and “nice” (T821). Emojis started in the late nineties in Japan and are now standard difficulty on each smartphone in the world. 3DX is a actually immersive expertise that even allows you to customize your avatar and digital world to basic details such as clear pores and skin and whether you’ll do glamorous ornaments or not. Even when motivated by benevolent concern, an employer will not be permitted to single out staff on the idea of pregnancy for opposed employment actions, including involuntary leave, layoff, or furlough. In relation to Senator Reynolds, did that encompass a single portfolio or a single subject space? After having had the benefit of hearing them in the witness box, I have no doubt the safety guards had been conscientiously making an attempt to do their jobs and the submissions important of them, which smack of each hindsight distortion and Grundyism, ought not to be accepted.
Those submissions censoriously assert that “Mr Lehrmann and Ms Higgins ought to have been denied entry to Parliament House having regard to their state upon arrival, or they should have been supervised when going to the Ministerial Suite and then immediately escorted out” and the safety guards “are open to criticism” and letting them in “was a really severe misjudgement on their part”. One of the advisers asked me in the future, like oh, like something weird’s happening, like are you okay. Do you suppose we are going to exit with you, figuring out that you fuck something that a lot as strikes? One risk is that these men seek out sexual companions to alleviate depression. 303 As I’ll explain, one of those messages is of some significance. After Ms Higgins had determined to appear on the Project programme, it will be recalled she despatched after which deleted a text message to Ms Gain after nearly two years of no contact (T926.4).
Mr Lehrmann mentioned he had two phones and a wallet with him for the entire night (T92.5-6; T249.12; T316.6-9). Okay. And also you mentioned you place your telephone down, or phones? I said, “Are you okay”. Okay. Now, you said that you just noticed these folders there in your desk? 461 I am also happy that Mr Lehrmann gave intentionally false solutions to the AFP throughout his 19 April 2021 interview when he said: “yeah, I did not have any alcohol in my office” (Ex 31, Q762) and that to his information, there was no alcohol in the Ministerial Suite (Ex 31, Q754; T196.28-38). 281 As at March 2019, Ms Gain was employed as a communications advisor within the Department of Defence, having previously worked as an advisor within the workplace of Mr Ciobo. Moreover, her evidence was consistent with contemporaneous materials together with, importantly, Ex R59, being a Telegram message through which Ms Gain gossiped to her friend, Major Irvine, that “Brittany hooked up with Bruce” the night time earlier than. 463 This isn’t just another unsatisfactory facet of Mr Lehrmann’s evidence.