Overview

• District Court Judge Craig Chowdhury upheld the Queensland Police Commissioner's legal professional privilege over two police documents and ordered them resealed.
• The court granted leave for a subpoena seeking Facebook, text and email messages allegedly sent by Thomson Greer lawyer Marlia Saunders to the complainant.
• Defence told the court a detective’s personal hard drive containing recordings, statements and a phone download malfunctioned and was destroyed, preventing independent forensic examination.
• Lehrmann has not been required to enter a plea to two Toowoomba rape charges from 2021, and the defence says police disclosure is still arriving in piecemeal fashion.
• A hearing on the defence application for a permanent stay is listed for 26 September, with an October 29 mention to set dates if it fails and any trial unlikely before 2026.