ACT's former top prosecutor, Shane Drumgold, successfully challenged an inquiry's findings on Bruce Lehrmann's trial due to reasonable apprehension of bias by former judge Walter Sofronoff.

ACT's former top prosecutor, Shane Drumgold, has successfully challenged findings made by an inquiry on Bruce Lehrmann's trial. The court ruled that the conduct of former judge Walter Sofronoff, who headed the inquiry into Lehrmann's rape trial, gave rise to a "reasonable apprehension of bias" against Drumgold. Drumgold had launched legal action in August to invalidate the adverse findings against him, claiming Sofronoff's communications with The Australian's columnist Janet Albrechsten had "infected" him with bias.