Decorated soldier Ben Roberts-Smith to learn fate today, five years after launching defamation battle

Ben Roberts-Smith will soon hear the judgement on the defamation battle he began five years ago.  (AAP: Dan Himbrechts )

Ben Roberts-Smith, one of Australia's most decorated soldiers, will today learn the outcome of an extraordinary defamation battle against three newspapers that began nearly five years ago. 

The Victoria Cross recipient sued the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Canberra Times and three journalists in the Federal Court over a series of articles published in 2018.