The Latest Breaking News from Brittany Higgins

Alarm bells were set off for one sheriff's officer in the ACT rape trial of Bruce Lehrmann after a research paper was uncovered by chance. The document was not part of court proceedings and ultimately led to a mistrial. So, what other rules do jurors run the risk of breaking?

The media has been urged to cease reporting on the man accused of raping Brittany Higgins ahead of a new trial.

Jurors spent five days deliberating Brittany Higgins' claim of being raped in Parliament house before a judge discovered of of them brought outside research into the court, scrapping the whole trial.

The jury was discharged after a 12-day trial and five days of deliberation after the print-out was found

After a week of jury deliberations the case reached a crescendo at breakneck speed – and the chaos of those final moments didn’t stop with the decision

The trial of Bruce Lehrmann, accused of raping former Liberal Party staffer Brittany Higgins, has been aborted after a juror was found in possession of material that had not been presented as evidence, against the judge’s specific directions.

In the wake of what has now been declared a mistrial, remains a little over two weeks of hearings and testimony about the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins by former colleague Bruce Lehrmann.

Higgins spoke to media after trial of Lehrmann was aborted by judge following discovery that a juror brought outside research into jury room

The alleged rape victim and her accused assailant have reacted outside court to the declaration of a mistrial.

A judge has discharged a jury in the high-profile trial of a former government advisor charged with raping a colleague in the Australian Parliament House because a juror had brought a research paper on sexual assaults into the jury room

The trial of Lehrmann for the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins, which he denies, was sensationally aborted after the jury had deliberated for a week