A lawyer for former top ACT prosecutor Shane Drumgold says the head of a high-profile inquiry into the handling of Bruce Lehrmann’s rape trial spent more than seven hours on the phone to The Australian newspaper over 55 phone calls during the probe. Dan O’Gorman, SC, who wants to overturn findings made against his client in the inquiry, told the ACT Supreme Court that phone records demonstrated former Queensland Supreme Court judge Walter Sofronoff had an apprehended bias against Drumgold due to the level of contact he had with The Australian’s Janet Albrechtsen in particular. “In the months leading up to and during the inquiry, Ms Albrechtsen was writing numerous articles critical of Mr Drumgold. Mr Sofronoff is then appointed,” O’Gorman said on Wednesday morning.
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