As the judgment in Bruce Lehrmann's defamation trial approaches, one question rings out loudest

Despite distracting allegations about sex workers, drugs and expensive golf trips over the past week, there's really only one thing anyone wants to know from the decision in the Bruce Lehrmann defamation case.

Mr Lehrmann's criminal trial for rape collapsed due to juror misconduct, leaving no findings, and he has always maintained his innocence.The abandonment of the criminal trial left Mr Lehrmann in limbo; with no jury verdict and no findings, there was no avenue to clear his name as he maintained his innocence.The Project interview in which Brittany Higgins told Ms Wilkinson she'd been raped was aired before she gave a formal police interview.

Network Ten's lawyers played down that suggestion, saying only a very "limited class of viewer", including parliamentary staffers who worked there at the time, would have been able to identify him. , that Seven Network had paid for sex workers and drugs for Mr Lehrmann to secure a deal for exclusive interviews.The real battle was over who was telling the truth — and that is most likely to determine the outcome people are most interested in.

Mr Lehrmann's lawyers conceded he had not always been truthful, but the attacks on his credibility "were not such as to render his evidence wholly unable to be given any weight". "It stood to her credit in these proceedings that she was prepared to acknowledge past errors and explain them," they said.Ms Wilkinson and the producers of The Project also faced tough questioning about their preparations for the story.

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