Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates, Sign up for Guardian Australias free morning and afternoon, email newsletters for your daily news roundup. ACT Police Manager of Criminal Investigations Detective Superintendent Scott Moller claimed in his notes that Mr Drumgold had decided to push on with the case regardless. Wilkinsons defence is the first to be filed of any of the four defendants. Bruce Lehrmann, man accused of sexually assaulting Brittany Higgins, is broke | news.com.au Australias leading news site. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP. He has denied the allegations and pleaded not guilty at his aborted trial in the ACT supreme court. Jesse Hyland A spokesman for Lehrmann said the former staffer would be seeking legal remedies concerning untrue content that has been published about him in the future but he wouldnt be making any further statements during this time. He is almost certain to have to give evidence in the defamation proceedings on this point, opening himself up to cross-examination by the publishers lawyers. Please try again. To bolster her qualified privilege defence, Wilkinson has set out her credentials as a journalist, the sources she relied upon, the steps she took to verify and factcheck prior to publication, and the opportunity Channel 10 gave to Lehrmann and others to comment. It can also now be revealed Higgins paused her evidence during the trial in October due to a mental health crisis. Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold announced the re-trial of Bruce Lehrmann will not go ahead.Credit:Rhett Wyman. Alex Blair. And what arguments will broadcaster Wilkinson use to defend herself? Her legal team, headed by the Sydney defamation barrister Sue Chrysanthou SC, say they sought particulars of identification from Lehrmann and those particulars have not been sufficiently supplied. What concerns me most about this recent round is that the distinction between an allegation and a finding of guilt has been completely obliterated The implicit premise of [the speech] is to celebrate the truthfulness of the story [Ms Wilkinson] exposed.. and There is too much political interference'',' detective superintendent Moller wrote.