00:00 Well, I guess basically that it wasn't good.
00:05 And more and more of it has been laid bare this afternoon as the lawyer from Network
00:12 10 has been answering questions in a fairly gruelling session which has only just wrapped
00:18 up.
00:19 Lisa Wilkinson said she had begged the network to correct the record when there were a series
00:24 of headlines accusing her of wrecking the trial and causing it to be delayed.
00:34 And the network decided not to.
00:38 The lawyer for the network says that was because they were concerned if they said anything
00:43 they could run the risk of a further or a further risk of contempt of court and interrupt
00:49 sub judice.
00:50 So they wanted to stay quiet even though Lisa Wilkinson was taking a battering and being
00:59 blamed for what had happened.
01:01 And there was a second string as well which was that she had always said that she was
01:08 not warned by the prosecutor, Shane Drumgold, not to give the speech.
01:15 And Mr Drumgold had indicated to the court that she had been warned and that formed the
01:20 basis of the ruling on the stay application at the time.
01:25 He later recounted, Mr Drumgold later conceded that he hadn't warned her.
01:31 And so Ms Wilkinson says she was given no help by the network to drag any of that out
01:37 and she's had to employ her own lawyers.
01:42 And who was this YouTube identity mentioned today?
01:46 Well this YouTuber, Glenn Logan, has a site called Feminism Debunked and he was rebroadcasting
01:57 Bruce Lehman's defamation case late last year.
02:00 He was warned not to do it.
02:02 In fact there was a warning at the start of every day not to rebroadcast the YouTube version
02:08 of the case.
02:11 And many people were warned for reposting and most of them took it down.
02:16 But he didn't.
02:17 His lawyer told the court today that he didn't know what was being said.
02:22 He wasn't listening to it.
02:23 He was just recording and rebroadcasting it and thought he was doing a public service
02:29 and didn't realise he was in trouble till he got a summons.
02:32 Whether that gets believed we'll have to see later.
02:37 But the court has now moved to begin contempt proceedings against him.
02:43 Ok so now this is all a result of this original defamation case.
02:48 What's happened with that and where's that at?
02:52 Well the defamation case wrapped up just before Christmas and through the Christmas holidays
02:58 in fact there were more and more documents landing in the court's open file.
03:04 The judge said he's been working every day since the hearings wrapped up except for Christmas
03:11 Day and he says that he thinks he'll be in a position to deliver his judgement sometime
03:18 in March.
03:20 So I'm looking forward to that Joe.
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