The highest court of Australia has the application of former seven exec to appeal against the findings of the federal court.
The Supreme Court has rejected a special leave application from former seven director Ben Roberts-Smith to challenge a ruling by a federal court against his attempt to sue the nine network for accusations about war crimes.
Mr. Roberts-Smith wanted to destroy the ruling that in the area of probabilities, accusations for which he was responsible, or complicated with the death of four prisoners in Afghanistan were considerable.
In his application at the Supreme Court, he said that the evidence laws should have been strictly applied, pointing that he has not been accused of a violation and is entitled to the suspicion of innocence.
In a decision in 2023, the then federal court Anthony Besanko maintained the truth defense of the newspapers and it was found for a bourgeois standard of evidence that Roberts-Smith was complicit in the murder of four unarmed prisoners, including a man with the Prothetic bone between 2009 and 2012.
The Supreme Court refused special leave to appeal against that decision on the same day that he was ordered to pay a fixed amount of the legal costs of nine for the non -successful federal court -Hoger appeal.
The former employer of Roberts-Smith, seven West Media chairman Kerry Stokes, did the test with private funds, but did not pay for the profession. In December 2023, the federal court confirmed that Mr Stokes’ private company, Australian Capital Equity Pty LTD (ACE), would pay Nine’s costs, estimated at around $ 30 million.
The recipient of Victoria Cross is not accused of criminal misconduct. He will have to pay nine a fixed amount to cover part of their professional costs, but will not be forced to pay compensation costs after the judges have established that there was no inappropriate in his appeal.
The parties were asked to negotiate the legal cost sum for the next two weeks.
In 2023 Ben Roberts-Smith resigned from Zeven, where he was the general director of Seven Queensland since 2015.
Source: ABC” The age” Nine
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