Lehrmann going going gone.

Originally posted by Taurisk: ↑

@Scott th Ratbag - I am sorry to see so much energy devoted to these two silly people.
I have worked in very similar circumstances; in a very public place, where one went to work, (but NOT after work), even though there were rumours about at my place of work and I have been the recipient of unwanted attention by men, who have little physical effort to put into their work and basically sit around all day, 'arguing' 'discussing' the finer and often not so fine points of opinions and party politicking. Yes one could get friendly with the 'bosses', they positively encouraged it, but it was better to keep one's distance.
The woman in question here (I don't even know her name, that's how little this interested me) knew very well she wasn't going to take her 'friend' back to work to actually catch up on some work, but to seek out a lonely place for a tryst.
She is no longer a young teenager, so she should know a little about how a man would have viewed her consent to return back to 'work' with him.
A clear-cut case of bad decisions IMO - mostly on her part. The man did what most men would do, see an opportunity and have a willing friend who seemed happy to enter a tryst, back 'at work'.

The fact that we have a public who are hungry for scandal and anything salacious, and reporters (and lawyers) etc. who make a living out of this, has netted the 'victim' in this whole sorry saga a nice sum and she is now living a comfortable life - I hear - somewhere in the south of France.
The man in question was ill-advised to try for 'justice' again - yes he is older, he is 'the man' and should have kept it in his trousers, but there was consent, simply by someone coming along to an assuredly lonely place, a familiar place, a work place.

I find this whole business sordid and immature and it has probably deprived this man of any chances for a reasonable job - plus he now has the cost to bear, his reputation is ruined, wheres the woman in question is well-off, has the sympathy of the public, she has the press behind her and is several millions of dollars better off. Women who do this for a living would be jealous - so much for so little 'work'.

Well-played, Lady!!!
Taurisk

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Taurisk your post demonstrates you have read little if any reportage of Justice Michael Lee's judgment in the Lehrmann defamation case.

if you had you wouldn't be perpetrating this 'he said she said' cliche that is the central theme of your post.

Can i recommend to you Anabel Crabb's excellent piece running now on the ABC News app entitled "In Bruce Lehrmann's 'omnishambles' of a trial, Justice Michael Lee delivered a powerful lesson in shades of grey."

here is a key excerpt from Crabb's article, itself a remarkable piece of daily journalism and a reason why we hold the ABC so proud.

"When a young man who finds a young woman attractive and has spent the night drinking with her and rather than going home to his girlfriend takes that young woman back to their deserted office and ignores multiple calls from his girlfriend, then leaves in the office the young woman who is found hours later with the lower part of her body naked and exposed, and who later still says that she woke from a drunken stupor to find him raping her, then where does the truth likely lie?

"Justice Lee's central technique here wasn't to weigh up a legal principle. It was to look at everything each party said, and how they behaved, and decide who was fair dinkum and who wasn't."