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Ben Roberts-Smith’s year-long defamation trial against three newspapers concludes

Ex-soldier’s barrister tells court that reporters ‘jumped on rumours’, while newspapers’ counsel alleges Roberts-Smith ‘prepared to lie under oath’

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Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial concludes with judge's verdict likely months away

The marathon defamation trial brought on by war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith concludes after his lawyer tells a Sydney court he is the victim of a "war of words" by bitter, jealous ex-colleagues who fed lies to journalists.

ABC News

Defence force documents disprove allegation Ben Roberts-Smith killed teenager in Afghanistan, defamation trial hears

Former soldier’s lawyer says defence documents show teenager was released unharmed but newspapers say they are not accurate

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Evidence of Afghan witnesses against Ben Roberts-Smith ‘hardly neutral’, lawyer tells court

Lawyers for Ben Roberts-Smith urge Justice Besanko to disregard evidence of Afghan witnesses, saying the men were prejudiced against Australian soldiers

The Guardian - AU

Roberts-Smith alleged kick due to 'laugh'

The motivation for Ben Roberts-Smith allegedly kicking an unarmed Afghan prisoner off a cliff was because he laughed at him, the Federal Court has been told.

AAP

Roberts-Smith's lawyer says witnesses lied

Ben Roberts-Smith's lawyer says evidence given against him had not established any of the grave allegations made by the newspapers he is suing for defamation.

AAP

‘Fanciful, nonsense’: case against Ben Roberts-Smith ‘based on conjecture’, lawyer tells defamation trial

Former soldier’s barrister says newspapers accusing him of murders while part of SAS ‘failed to establish any motive’ and the case is ‘an embarrassment’

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Ben Roberts-Smith legal counsel says witnesses who gave evidence against the war veteran are liars

Witnesses against Ben Roberts-Smith in his long-running defamation case are "liars, perjurers and gossips", a barrister tells the Federal Court in his closing address.

ABC News

SAS soldiers ignored 'despicable crimes'

SAS soldiers who eventually testified against Ben Roberts-Smith were willing to turn a blind eye to alleged crimes due to a code of silence, a judge has heard.

AAP

Ben Roberts-Smith was targeted after being awarded Victoria Cross, his barrister tells court

Closing submissions begin in the former SAS soldier’s long-running defamation trial against three newspapers

The Guardian - AU

'Someone is lying' in Roberts-Smith case

Closing submissions have begun in the defamation trial launched by Ben Roberts-Smith, describing a sustained media campaign to discredit an exceptional soldier.

AAP

Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial begins hearing closing submissions after 100 days of testimony

Ben Roberts-Smith's barrister tells a judge the war veteran was an exceptional soldier who was subject to a sustained campaign from newspapers to create a belief he was a war criminal.

ABC News

Senior SAS officer tells defamation trial he ‘couldn’t speculate’ if Ben Roberts-Smith complicit in alleged Afghan murders

Person 81 tells court he did not observe any conduct by Roberts-Smith and two other soldiers that caused him suspicion they had murdered anyone

The Guardian - AU

Senior SAS officer contradicts previous witness in Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial

Person 81, the troop commander during event central to the trial, says he was not informed of any insurgents killed at the time

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Senior SAS officer backs Ben Roberts-Smith

A senior SAS soldier is likely the final witness to be called by Ben Roberts-Smith and has backed his account that no men were found inside a secret tunnel.

ABC News

Former elite soldier rejects claims Ben Roberts-Smith kicked Afghan man over a cliff

A former elite soldier codenamed Person 11, called as a witness by Ben Roberts-Smith in his defamation case, rejects allegations the war veteran kicked an unarmed Afghan man over a cliff during a mission in 2012.

The Guardian - AU

Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial: witness expected to deny wrongdoing in killing of Afghan villager

Person 11 to give evidence on allegation by newspapers that Roberts-Smith kicked handcuffed man off cliff before ordering him shot

ABC News

Ben Roberts-Smith witness won fancy dress competition wearing white supremacist outfit, court told

A former elite soldier tells a Sydney court he wore a Ku Klux Klan costume to a fancy dress party at an unofficial soldier bar in Afghanistan "just for a laugh".

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First defamation trial witness called for Ben Roberts-Smith denies 'blooding' claims

A former elite soldier colleague of war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith tells a Sydney court he never used the term "blooding the rookie" or killed anyone taken prisoner in Afghanistan.

The Guardian - AU

Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial: SAS colleague felt threatened to testify by newspapers, court hears

Soldier refused to answer questions about one mission on grounds of self-incrimination on offence of ‘the most serious nature’

ABC News

Former SAS soldier tells Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial he did not want to testify in case

A former elite soldier tells a court he felt "threatened" that if he did not cooperate with newspapers being sued by Ben Roberts-Smith, he would instead be subpoenaed as a hostile witness.

AAP

SAS soldier 'threatened' to give evidence

A fresh SAS witness in the defamation trial launched by Ben Roberts-Smith says he felt threatened to testify for the news outlets the war hero is suing.

The Guardian - AU

Soldiers supporting Ben Roberts-Smith accused of colluding over section of evidence in defamation trial

Lawyers for Roberts-Smith reject ‘completely baseless’ allegations against four witnesses set to give evidence for the SAS veteran

The Guardian - AU

Witness in Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial denies he is a ‘liar and a fantasist’

Former SAS soldier defends himself against accusations from Arthur Moses SC of trying to justify his own failures as a soldier

ABC News

Ex-soldier tells court he didn't fabricate allegations against Ben Roberts-Smith to hide his own 'abysmal failure'

A former elite soldier who has claimed in court Ben Roberts-Smith bullied him denies making allegations against the war veteran to explain his own "abysmal failure" in the Defence Force.

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