Ben Roberts-Smith Continues Attack on Defamation Loss

Published on February 5, 2024

A wide-ranging challenge by Ben Roberts-Smith to rebuild his reputation and undo his defamation defeat will continue for its second day. The ex-SAS corporal has attacked a judge’s findings he engaged in or was complicit in four unlawful killings of prisoners while he was deployed in Afghanistan. The 45-year-old has always denied the allegations and has sued Nine-owned papers The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald plus The Canberra Times in the Federal Court for defamation. He has not been criminally charged. On Feb. 5, his barrister Bret Walker SC challenged a June judgment tossing his client’s defamation lawsuit and finding allegations he engaged in the unlawful killings were substantially true....

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