Former SAS soldier Ben Roberts-Smith has agreed to pay for the legal costs of his failed defamation case. 9News
The three publishers that successfully defended Ben Roberts-Smith's defamation cases over their war crimes reporting are seeking to hit the Seven Network with their legal bills after it financially backed the former soldier.
The lawsuits relate to a number of 2018 reports published by two Nine-owned publications, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, as well as The Canberra Times about SAS personnel while deployed in Afghanistan. Representing the news organisations, barrister Nicholas Owens SC said his clients would chase costs from Seven and ACE which signed loan agreements with Roberts-Smith.
Owens said his clients were also seeking indemnity costs from Roberts-Smith. These orders are typically granted by the court in lawsuits which were frivolous, hopeless or doomed to fail.Monica Allen, Ben Roberts-Smiths lawyer arrives at the cost hearing at the Federal Court of Australia.However, he is fighting suggestions that he be stuck with the bill before that date.
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