Colin Craig is heading back to court to appeal a High Court decision that he sexually harassed his former press secretary.
The former Conservative Party leader and Rachel MacGregor have been in and out of court after falling out in the lead-up to the 2014 election.
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The latest instalment of the saga came after the pair sued each other. Last month, the High Court ruled that both Craig and MacGregor defamed each other.
In that decision, the court said Craig had defamed MacGregor by claiming: she'd made "false claims of sexual harassment" against him; that she was "a liar"; and that "she had victimised the Craigs, and that she was the kind of person who would victimise and hurt a family".
Meanwhile, MacGregor was found to have defamed Craig by saying: he "was a bad employer who took unfair advantage of MacGregor by failing and refusing to negotiate pay rates, and failing to pay invoices when due"; he was "cruel, nasty and unfair towards [a young woman]"; "he has harassed, abused or been nasty towards two or more women"; and by saying "he caused a young woman to commit suicide".
The court said MacGregor's claim that Craig sexually harassed her "was true", and she didn't defame him when she claimed a press conference he held "contained clear factual inaccuracies, because it did".
Craig is no longer seeking monetary damages from MacGregor, but said he would continue to appeal because it's "simply about getting to the truth".
When last month's ruling was announced, MacGregor said she welcomed the decision and hoped Craig didn't lodge an appeal because she wanted "this awful ordeal to be finally over".
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