Shane Drumgold says Bruce Lehrmann prosecution inquiry failed to give him fair hearing and breached law

ACT government also reveals Sofronoff report appeared to present paragraph from Australian newspaper as opinion of NSW supreme court judge

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Outgoing ACT director of public prosecutions Shane Drumgold has alleged the Sofronoff inquiry failed to give him a fair hearing, denied him natural justice, breached the law and gave rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias".

On Tuesday, the ACT government revealed that Drumgold was mounting an application for judicial review of the damning findings made about his conduct by Walter Sofronoff KC during his inquiry into the prosecution of Bruce Lehrmann.