The former soldier’s previous defamation trial presents the rare situation of there being hours of evidence of his alleged crimes already on the public record
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For almost every day of his marathon defamation trial, Ben Roberts-Smith VC sat in the same spot in the federal court. A chair by the window, bathed in sunshine, from where he could glare at witnesses giving evidence.
He sits now in a very different position.