Mr Roberts-Smith’s barrister,Arthur Moses,SC,told the Federal Court on Tuesday that telecommunications records indicate an email address used by the former soldier to correspond with his lawyers was accessed by Danielle Scott,a close friend of Ms Roberts,on at least 101 occasions.
Ms Roberts signed an affidavit on August 20 swearing that she did not give Ms Scott access to the account.
“Now regrettably,we say that those passages of that affidavit are a false construct,” Mr Moses said.
“Because what we do know now,as a result of documents produced by Telstra and Crazy Domains,is that the only person who had access to that[Roberts-Smith] group email account on April 5 was an email address which was associated with Ms Danielle Scott or her husband.”
The issue went to the integrity of the court process and the administration of justice and was crucial in working out how the media company’s lawyers in the defamation proceedings “came to be armed with the knowledge of certain emails”,Mr Moses said.
Ms Roberts should now be brought into court for cross-examination so she could be held to account,he said.
“This really brings into sharp focus the integrity of the court process.[Ms Roberts] has been caught out lying on objective evidence.”