Court puts figure on Kerry Stoke’s $15.5m legal bill in Ben Roberts-Smith defamation saga
Australia’s highest-decorated military Ben Roberts-Smith’s unsuccessful slander case and Sydney Morning Herald’s $ 13.5 million will have to pay legal costs.
Federal Court orders were published on Tuesday Mogul Kerry, Mr. Roberts-Smith’s attempts to defend war crime after the $ 13.5 million invoice.
Mr. Stokes paid most of the legal struggle of Mr. Roberts-Smith and says that the Australian capital capital of Australian capital, the company of Tuesday, military and Mr. Stokes, will pay $ 13.27 million.
In addition, this ultimate court’s action of $ 224,000 for the cost of the hook.
VC buyer, in the middle of the 110 -day hearing hugged in the middle of 2022, legal difficulties exhausted.
At a long civil hearing following the AGE and SMH reports in 2018, the Federal Court Justice Anthony Besanko found that the former private air service was involved in the murder of four unarmed men in Corporal Afghanistan.
The findings were made in the balance of possibilities that are less than the criminal standard beyond reasonable suspicion.
The Federal Court’s full court applied for appeal and was later rejected. Mr Roberts-Smith promised to take the case to the Supreme Court, saying, orum I continue to protect my innocence and reject these terrible vindictive claims. ”
Last week, the Supreme Court rejected the appeal. This decision was the ultimate legal appeal of the most fancy soldier of Australia in the struggle for insulting the newspapers he had.
Mr. Stokes is the president of seven Western media and paid to Mr. Roberts-Smith’s lawyers using special funds for civil hearing, but did not pay for appeal.
When the Federal Court rejected the case, Mr. Stokes agreed to pay about 95 percent of the newspapers’ legal bills on the usual compensation.
Mr. Roberts-Smith paid 910,000 dollars as a security for Nine’s legal costs as a condition for bringing the appeal to court to court.
In the Federal Court’s decision, Justice Besanko approached the defense of the newspapers and was deployed in Afghanistan between 2009-2012, while the soldier proved to be a criminal partner in the murder of four unarmed prisoners, including a man with a prosthesis leg.
AGE and SMH sentenced Gina Rinehart to the richest woman of Australia to determine if Mr. Roberts-Smith also paid money. The mysterious mining boss has previously expressed support for the military.
Last month, the Federal Court decided that the newspapers did not have to follow Mrs. Rinehart personally to court.
