Seven West Media’s chairman, Kerry Stokes, has failed to overturn a court ruling that he hand over thousands of emails exchanged with Ben Roberts-Smith’s legal team and other documents relating to the soldier’s failed defamation action.
Stokes, his commercial director, Bruce McWilliam, and Roberts-Smith had appealed July’s federal court ruling. But the full federal court ruled on Thursday morning that the appeal should be dismissed, with costs to be paid to the media companies who sought the documents.
