Ben Roberts-Smith has turned to Australia’s highest court in a last-ditch effort to sue Nine Newspapers over war crime allegations.

Ben Roberts-Smith’s actions in killing an unarmed man with a prosthetic leg were so dramatic as to suggest “a certain recklessness or perhaps even brazenness”, a court has said as it ...

Ben Roberts-Smith vows to fight on despite suffering shattering blow after war criminal finding Ben Roberts-Smith has lost his appeal in his defamation case against Nine Newspapers, in which he ...

Ben Roberts-Smith has lost his appeal in his defamation case against Nine Newspapers, in which he was ruled by a civil standard to be a war criminal. Mr Roberts-Smith lost his multimillion dollar ...

Ben Roberts-Smith lost his appeal to overturn court findings implicating him in war crimes in Afghanistan. The Federal Court dismissed his appeal, citing sufficient evidence he murdered four ...

Former SAS commando Ben Roberts-Smith has been fighting to repair his tattered reputation since 2018, when newspapers unearthed allegations he took part in the murder of unarmed Afghan prisoners.

Former SAS Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith VC, MG, with the Australian Special Operations Task Group in Afghanistan. Neither Roberts-Smith nor McKenzie were in the court to hear the decision.

Australia's most decorated living war veteran loses defamation appeal over Afghanistan killings 16 May 2025, 09:38 Ben Roberts-Smith arrives at the Supreme Court in Sydney, Monday, June 28, 2021. Mr ...

Ben Roberts-Smith outside the Federal Court earlier this month. Sam Mooy But the Full Court of the Federal Court – Justices Nye Perram, Anna Katzmann and Geoffrey Kennett – unanimously ...

Australia’s most decorated living war veteran, Ben Roberts-Smith, has lost his appeal of a civil court ruling that blamed him for unlawfully killing four unarmed Afghans while he served in ...