A judge has rejected a request by lawyers for Seven and the TV network’s billionaire chairman, Kerry Stokes, to issue a correction to his published decision ordering the production of over 8,600 emails exchanged with Ben Roberts-Smith’s lawyers in a defamation case.
Seven Network and owner Kerry Stokes are seeking to challenge a ruling ordering them to produce thousands of emails exchanged with Ben Roberts-Smith’s legal team as Nine tallies its costs of successfully defending the former soldier’s defamation action.
Kerry Stokes and Seven Network have lost their bid for an extension to produce 8,600 emails exchanged between the media company and Ben Roberts-Smith’s lawyers in Fairfax’s bid for costs in defending the defamation case over alleged war crimes
Ben Roberts-Smith has argued a judge should recuse himself from deciding if the Office of the Special Investigator can access his defamation court file, arguing the public might think he was biased and wanted to “further” his findings that the former SAS corporal committed war crimes. In a case management hearing on Monday, Arthur Moses…
The judge overseeing the receivership of Melissa Caddick’s estate has pushed off a dispute about a collection of sneakers held by the deceased fraudster’s teenaged son, including one pair that could be worth up to $12,000.
Fairfax can see 8,600 emails that passed between Seven’s commercial director and Ben Roberts-Smith’s legal team as it seeks significant defence costs in the accused war criminal’s unsuccessful defamation case, a judge has ruled.
A “striking” 8,600 emails passed between Seven’s commercial director and Ben Roberts-Smith’s legal team, suggesting the media company was actively involved in the unsuccessful defamation case, Fairfax has argued as it seeks significant defence costs.
Seven Network and law firms Herbert Smith Freehills and Addisons are fighting Fairfax’s bid for communications relating to Ben Roberts-Smith’s unsuccessful defamation case, as the publisher seeks its significant defence costs.
Former SAS corporal Ben Roberts-Smith has filed an appeal after he lost his defamation case against Nine-owned Fairfax in a ruling that found he committed murder in Afghanistan and was not a reliable witness.
Seven and law firm Herbert Smith Freehills have lost a bid to set aside subpoenas issued by Fairfax, as the publisher seeks third party costs orders against Seven for funding disgraced soldier Ben Roberts-Smith’s unsuccessful defamation case.