‘Damning’ audio at centre of Roberts-Smith retrial bid

News.com.au - 08:11
An audio recording at the centre of disgraced veteran Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation retrial bid has been deemed “shocking” and a “direct acknowledgment of unethical conduct,” a court has been told.

An audio recording at the centre of disgraced veteran Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation retrial bid has been deemed “shocking” and a “direct acknowledgment of unethical conduct,” a court has been told.

The Victoria Cross recipient failed in his bid to sue Nine Newspapers in 2023 for a series of articles alleging that he had committed war crimes, with the Federal Court instead finding, on the civil standard of the balance of probabilities, that the allegations were true.

Roberts-Smith is claiming a miscarriage of justice in his failed defamation case agai...
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