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Nino Bucci Justice and courts reporter

Ben Roberts-Smith agrees to pay media outlets’ legal costs over failed defamation case

Ben Roberts-Smith Anthony Besanko Joe Edwards Kerry Stokes Nicholas Owens ACE Seven War Crimes
File photo of Ben Roberts-Smith arriving at the federal court of Australia
Ben Roberts-Smith has agreed to pay the legal costs of the media outlets party to his failed defamation case – an amount estimated to be in the tens of millions of dollars. Photograph: Reuters

Ben Roberts-Smith has agreed to pay the legal costs of media outlets party to his failed defamation action, the federal court heard on Thursday.

The outlets are also seeking third-party cost orders against the Seven Network and Australian Capital Equity, Seven chair Kerry Stokes’s private company, which provided funds for Roberts-Smith’s case.

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