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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Jordyn Beazley

Nick McKenzie denies seeing privileged communication between Ben Roberts-Smith and his lawyers

Journalist Nick McKenzie
Journalist Nick McKenzie faced cross-examination from Ben Roberts-Smith’s barrister during a hearing over whether to reopen the war veteran’s defamation case appeal. Photograph: Bianca De Marchi/AAP

Investigative journalist Nick McKenzie has denied in a Sydney court that he saw privileged communications between Ben Roberts-Smith and his lawyers during the proceedings of the war veteran’s failed defamation case against him and Nine.

The court also heard a “secret” recording where McKenzie allegedly told a witness in the defamation proceedings that Roberts-Smith’s ex-wife, Emma Roberts, and her friend Danielle Scott were “actively briefing us on his legal strategy in respect of you”.

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