The actual fact she “handed out”, at a while, is common floor in ultimate submissions. That is strongly supported by the fact, as Mr Lehrmann put it in his remaining submissions, that she “passed out bare in the Minister’s suite” (emphasis added) and my finding she was nonetheless very considerably affected two hours after she was left alone. 517 Despite these contemporaneous representations, extra drinking with Ms Higgins in the Ministerial Suite was not put to Mr Lehrmann in cross-examination because Dr Collins embraced the account given by Ms Higgins as to why she came again to Parliament House, which I have rejected. 552 Against this background, and in the context of my different conclusions as to what occurred, I now come to identifying what occurred throughout the Ministerial Suite. They are per there not being any difficulty between them however again, on the assumption she was a victim, they can be readily characterised as the actions of a woman who had not but come to phrases with what had occurred to her but wanted to confront the fact that she needed to work out a means of being in the same professional workplace as a male colleague who had assaulted her.
There are the varied assertions of Ms Higgins that her intoxication was “worse than even the worst night time at schoolies” and “10 out of 10 drunk” (T927.38-45) and those of Mr Lehrmann downplaying her level of intoxication. 568 It could also be stating the obvious, however given some submissions made by the events, you will need to stress that I’m not dealing with whether, by reference to the civil customary of proof, Mr Lehrmann has breached a selected criminal provision under a law of the Australian Capital Territory. Having regard to the style by which the choice in Tolmie was handled in Sims, I don’t consider that it concerned a selected approval of Kirby P’s formulation of the concept. It additionally appears to be in line with the selections of the brand new South Wales courts relied upon by Besanko J in Sims; namely, Kitchener and the decision of Newman J in Tolmie. His Honour’s dialogue of Tolmie was restricted and he did not discuss the correctness of the particular formulation captured by the headnote in Tolmie. Well, as a chorus of pre-release headlines trumpeting the fictionalized Lee’s animatronic talking penis confirmed, that individual fear was misplaced. For my part, the ACT authorities confirm the applicability of the idea of non-advertent recklessness but don’t mandate any particular formulation of it.
593 It’s not in dispute that the information element will be established by recklessness and Mr Lehrmann in his closing submissions, when in dealing with variations between imputations, accepts that “the bare reality of rape… could be dedicated simply by being recklessly indifferent to whether or not there was consent”. Recklessness doesn’t need to be the product of aware thought. In doing so, I will distinguish between one thing that might need happened (but the place I am unable to reach a enough level of satisfaction to permit a discovering of truth to be made), and something that on the stability of probabilities did occur (the place I have reached the requisite stage of satisfaction to make a finding of fact). Um, and then, you understand, I used to be attempting to- it did not it did not – I remember thinking it didn’t make any sense at all what she was telling me because she mentioned, “They were out, then they went back to a minister’s office to have drinks.” And having worked in that constructing for a very long time, like I know you just – you can’t simply go have a occasion in a minister’s office. Um, you already know, had been out partying.
There were no dates, however I’d known him for some time (or so I believed), so we finally ended up in my apartment making out on my sofa. No NGOs targeted particularly on trafficking-associated issues; nevertheless, there were charity organizations that provided help and shelter to girls and youngsters who were victims of trafficking. The law doesn’t classify as a trafficking sufferer a voluntary migrant who, upon arrival, is faced with a situation of labor trafficking or sex trafficking. This can be proven not solely the place the accused adverts to the potential of consent but ignores it, but additionally the place the accused is so bent on gratification and indifferent to the rights of the victim as to ignore completely the requirement for consent. 589 If one accepts sexual intercourse occurred, and also accepts that Ms Higgins did not consent to intercourse as I’ve discovered, the problem arises as to whether or not one can draw the inference that Mr Lehrmann must have identified that Ms Higgins was not consenting.