Ben Roberts-Smith’s barrister told an appeal court that a judge should not have found the war veteran ordered the execution of an Afghan prisoner.
The war veteran’s barrister said that a killing may have been lawful even if a court found Australian soldiers planted a Taliban-issued object on an Afghan man’s body.
The former soldier is fighting to overturn a decision dismissing his multimillion-dollar defamation suit,with the appeal slated to run for 10 days.
The battle lines are drawn in the former SAS corporal’s appeal,which starts on Monday and will run for 10 days.
The media industry’s year was filled with shock resignations,succession plans and landmark court rulings.
Kerry Stokes preferred being an apologist for a criminal rather than recognising the value in public interest journalism.
The move will prevent communications between the former soldier’s lawyers and his chief supporters at Seven from being made public.
The similarity between the stakes of two high-profile defamation cases doesn’t end with the fact that they share the same lawyers.
The disgraced former SAS corporal claims he could be prejudiced if emails and messages he sent Seven Network executives can be accessed by authorities.
Thousands of emails between Seven West Media executives and disgraced former SAS corporal Ben Roberts-Smith’s legal team will be released to commercial rival Nine.
A Federal Court judge has ordered disgraced former SAS corporal Ben Roberts-Smith to pay a greater proportion of the legal costs incurred by The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald in his marathon defamation case.