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Kerry Stokes and Seven ordered to hand over thousands of emails exchanged with Ben-Roberts Smith’s legal team

Ben Roberts-Smith
The Seven Network funded the defamation action brought by Ben Roberts-Smith, then the general manager of the network’s Queensland operations. Photograph: Rick Rycroft/AP

Seven West Media’s chairman, Kerry Stokes, and his commercial director, Bruce McWilliam, have been ordered by a court to hand over thousands of emails exchanged with Ben Roberts-Smith’s legal team and other documents relating to the soldier’s failed defamation action.

Roberts-Smith, a recipient of the Victoria Cross, failed last month in his defamation case against three Australian newspapers he alleged had defamed him as a war criminal.

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