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Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case: ex-soldier ordered to hand over war crimes inquiry documents
The Victoria Cross recipient must provide newspapers’ lawyers with documents that will reveal if the inquiry proposes to make adverse findings against himThe Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith has been ordered to hand over crucial documents that will reveal whether a war crimes inquiry proposes to make adverse findings against him.Roberts-Smith, the country’s most decorated living soldier, is currently suing the Age and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers for defamation in the federal court over a series of articles he says wrongly characterised him as a war criminal. Continue reading...
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