Emails and encrypted messages relating to a failed defamation action by former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith have been ordered from Seven and its chairman Kerry Stokes' private investment vehicle, who will also pay for a losing bid to have subpoenas dropped.
Mr Roberts-Smith sued Nine newspapers The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age as well as the Canberra Times over reports that a judge ruled in June painted a "substantially true" image of him as a war criminal involved in four murders while serving in Afghanistan.
