Overview

• Magistrate Marica Duvnjak ruled that Bruce Lehrmann did not demonstrate an immediate risk warranting an interim order against Karleigh Smith.
• Lehrmann alleges Smith and a photographer tailed him in a vehicle, including on unpaved roads, posing potential safety hazards.
• Smith’s counsel invoked a legal exemption for journalistic activity, contending her pursuit fell within her reporting responsibilities.
• Lehrmann’s lawyer raised conflict-of-interest concerns after Smith engaged a firm that had previously held his confidential information.
• Separately, Lehrmann faces an unresolved allegation of stealing a car in southern Tasmania last November, which he denies.