Bruce Lehrmann inquiry head spent 7.5 hours over 55 phone calls to The Australian during probe, court told

Lawyer argues Walter Sofronoff's phone calls to Janet Albrechtsen show an apprehension of bias' against former ACT director of public prosecutions Shane Drumgold

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The head of the inquiry into the handling of Bruce Lehrmann's prosecution spent 10 hours on the phone to journalists - including seven-and-a-half hours on the phone to The Australian newspaper - during the probe, a court has been told.

Shane Drumgold, the former ACT director of public prosecutions, is taking legal action against the ACT government and Walter Sofronoff, a former Queensland judge who headed the Lehrmann inquiry, in an effort to quash the ACT board of inquiry's findings.

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