Linda Reynolds welcomes Brittany Higgins’ ‘olive branch’ but says without concessions she will go to trial

Reynolds says if ‘Higgins does not accept Justice Lee’s findings on the claims of coverup and mistreatment … it will have to be proved again in our trial’

Linda Reynolds has welcomed Brittany Higgins’ “olive branch” apology but insists she will take her former staffer to court in July unless she agrees with a federal court’s findings the Liberal senator did not coverup and mistreat her.

In a statement on Saturday, Higgins apologised to Reynolds, the former defence minister and her one-time boss, along with her then chief of staff Fiona Brown, after Justice Lee’s judgment rejected Higgins’s claims of a political cover-up.