An in-house lawyer for Ten says a significant reason for her approval of Lisa Wilkinson's controversial Logies speech on Brittany Higgins' alleged rape was a failure of prosecutors to raise concerns.
In an affidavit released publicly on Friday, Network Ten's senior litigation counsel Tasha Smithies described how she green-lit the speech by Wilkinson, who interviewed Ms Higgins for a February 2021 report on The Project.
