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.
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The former British PM’s visit down under aroused such excitement that the organisers had to boost the event’s capacity.
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.
Former journalist Ross Coulthart,who spun for war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith,won the Australian Skeptics’ bent spoon award for his claims about UFOs.