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Australian Capital Territory chief prosecutor Shane Drumgold has reportedly handed in his resignation following bombshell findings from the Sofronoff Inquiry.

Reported elements of the Sofronoff Inquiry report questions every case led by Shane Drumgold as a public prosecutor and puts a serious cloud over the administration of justice in the ACT, says Opposition Leader Elizabeth Lee.

I blogged on this a while back, but now we have an outcome that is staggering. The background is in Australia a former Liberal staffer accused another staffer of raping her. It became very political, with allegations Ministers covered up or were not sympathetic and then then Labor Opposition attacked over it. It eventually went

Headlined "Trial treachery: the lies of unethical Drumgold", "The Australian" has splashed the findings of the suppressed Sofronoff Inquiry, claiming the ACT's chief prosecutor engaged in serious malpractice.

Bruce Lehrmann will lodge a multimillion-dollar claim for compensation against the ACT Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, "The Australian" is reporting.  

For Chief Minister Andrew Barr to interfere with the release of the Sofronoff Inquiry report is "outrageous", says acting Liberals leader Jeremy Hanson.

The ACT government will withhold the findings of the Sofronoff Inquiry when they are handed to Chief Minister Andrew Barr on Monday, a move that has drawn the ire of  Bruce Lehrmann.

There is no reasonable reason for any delay in publicly releasing the Sofronoff Inquiry report, writes legal affairs commentator HUGH SELBY. Why then is the government keen to keep the results away from the ratepayers who funded it?

Legal affairs writer HUGH SELBY says the reasons prosecution offices go to trial or not are secret business and there is no mechanism that forces a prosecution office to disclose their reasoning.

EMBATTLED ACT Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold has extended his leave until late August.