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Anthony Williamson SC has temporarily taken the reins.

The wiry Shane Drumgold, SC, has been throwing punches all his life. But now the ACT’s top prosecutor is on the ropes.

Charges are only laid in relation to five per cent of sexual assault reports.

"Silence – that’s the response by those ranks of people whose careers are carried on words, spoken and written. They were, one and all, silent.. What does it mean?," writes “CityNews” legal commentator and former barrister HUGH SELBY.

Legal commentator Chris Merritt has suggested the ACT director of public prosecutions will likely never return to the job amid the fallout from the high-profile inquiry to the Bruce Lerhmann trial.

Anthony Williamson SC has temporarily taken the reins.

Anthony Williamson SC has temporarily taken the reins.

ACT Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold has stood aside and taken leave during an ongoing inquiry into the handling of rape accusations against former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann.

Anthony Williamson SC has temporarily taken the reins.

Former ICAC assistant commissioner Anthony Whealy KC has suggested Shane Drumgold was chasing a “conviction at all costs” in the high-profile Bruce Lehrmann case.