War veteran Ben Roberts-Smith fails in a bid to overturn his multi-million-dollar defamation loss against Nine newspapers, which found him complicit in war crimes on the balance of probabilities.

Ben Roberts-Smith says he now intends to appeal the landmark judgement in the High Court.

The Full Federal Court said evidence against Roberts-Smith was “sufficiently cogent to support the findings that the appellant murdered four Afghan men”.

Australia's most-decorated living soldier Ben Roberts-Smith, has lost an appeal against a landmark defamation judgement which found he committed war crimes. A judge in 2023 ruled that news ...

Ben Roberts-Smith: Australia's most decorated living war veteran loses defamation appeal over Afghanistan killings Ben Roberts-Smith was accused by three newspapers of war crimes - with three ...

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

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 ...

After a seven-year defamation fight and tens of millions of dollars in legal costs, the former elite soldier has lost his bid to overturn the landmark decision.

Ben Roberts-Smith has lost his bid to overturn the finding in his defamation case that he committed war crimes in Afghanistan, but immediately vowed to challenge the verdict in the High Court. On ...