A group of Australian Federal Police officers recently had their defamation case against former ACT chief prosecutor Shane Drumgold dismissed by the federal court. The officers were seeking $1.42 million in damages, claiming that Drumgold had defamed them in a written complaint regarding their handling of the Bruce Lehrmann prosecution. The court registrar made the decision to dismiss the case on Tuesday. The officers alleged that Drumgold's complaint about their actions in the Lehrmann case had damaged their reputations. However, the court found in favor of Drumgold and dismissed the defamation claim. This outcome marks the end of a legal battle that had been ongoing between the AFP officers and Drumgold. The officers had sought significant damages, but the court ultimately ruled in favor of the former chief prosecutor. For more news updates, follow our Australia news live blog and sign up for Guardian Australia's morning and afternoon email newsletters for daily news roundups.

Network Ten is requesting that Bruce Lehrmann pay $200,000 in security against the cost of his appeal. The network has asked the court to dismiss Lehrmann's appeal if he fails to comply with this order. In April, Justice Michael Lee ruled that Lehrmann was not defamed by Lisa Wilkinson and Network Ten in relation to an interview with Brittany Higgins on The Project. During the interview, Higgins alleged that she was raped by a staffer. Justice Lee found that Lehrmann had raped Higgins on a minister's couch in Parliament House in 2019.