legal experts explain the judgment in the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case
- Written by Ricardo Villegas, Senior Lecturer of Law, University of South Australia
Today, Federal Court Justice Anthony Besanko handed down his long-awaited judgment in the defamation case that Ben Roberts-Smith, Australia’s most decorated living former SAS soldier, brought against the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Canberra Times.
The civil trial ended in July 2022 after an astonishing 110 days of evidence and...