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Duncan Murray

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Roberts smith ordered to pay publishers legal costs | History Defined

Ben Roberts-Smith must pay the legal costs of media outlets after failed defamation action. (Dan Himbrechts/AAP PHOTOS)

Former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith has been ordered to pay the legal costs of several media outlets following a failed defamation action over allegations he committed war crimes.

The Federal Court ruled in June that articles published by Nine newspapers and The Canberra Times alleging Mr Roberts-Smith's involvement in four murders while deployed in Afghanistan were substantially true.

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