Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial live: final week of evidence to hear from Brittany Higgins family, police and lip reading expert

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The defamation action against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson was due to finish on Thursday but may extend until Monday. Follow the latest news and updates from the trial today

Expert lip-reader Tim Reedy is due to give evidence this week about conversations between Bruce Lehrmann and Brittany Higgins, and others, at Canberra hotel The Dock on the night she alleges he raped her at Parliament House.

We are heading into what is expected to be the final week of the defamation trial which has been set down to finish on Thursday. If the remaining witness evidence has not finished by then, the court may sit on Monday, Justice Michael Lee has said.

You were trying to get Ms Higgins drunk.

No I wasn’t.

You were ensuring that she had a glass of spirit-based alcohol in her hands at every moment.

No I wasn’t.

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