Brittany Higgins has joined growing calls for changes in NSW courts to allow sexual assault complainants to prerecord their testimony. Among those joining the calls is Ms Higgins, who alleged she was sexually assaulted by her then-parliamentary colleague Bruce Lehrmann inside former senator Linda Reynolds’ office in March 2019. Mr Lehrmann has continually denied the allegation; however, in a subsequent defamation trial, a judge found on the balance of probabilities that Mr Lehrmann had raped Ms Higgins. “No reform can erase what happened to a victim-survivor, but we can stop our legal system from making the experience harder than it needs to be,” Ms Higgins said. Justice Michael Lee, who presided over the defamation trial, found on the balance of probabilities that Mr Lehrmann had raped Ms Higgins in Parliament House.