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#13855427 at 2021-06-08 09:35:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #16 - INFILTRATION NOT INVASION Edition
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The court heard that in another newspaper report, it had been claimed Ben Roberts-Smith punched a woman who was a supporter of anti-violence campaigner Rosie Batty, and with whom the ex-soldier had been having an affair.
The incident with the woman occurred on May 28, 2018, after a dinner attended by the-then prime minister Malcolm Turnbull in Canberra.
The woman had attended the dinner with Mr Roberts-Smith, become "very, very drunk" and Mr Roberts-Smith had feared his affair with her would be exposed.
On leaving the dinner, Mr McClintock said it was caught on CCTV that the woman took to the stairs and "lost her footing ... hit her head and sustained ... a very severe impact to her left temple and eye".
He said that the woman had then told her doctor and others, including Mr Roberts-Smith's ex-wife Emma, that she had fallen down stairs.
But Mr McClintock said media had then falsely alleged that she had been struck by his client and that allegation had been even more damaging to Mr Roberts-Smith than claims of war crimes.
He told the court that should allegations against Mr Roberts-Smith that he was a murderer and had assaulted the woman be proved false he would be due the highest aggravated damages ever in Australia.
During the trial, Afghani witnesses will testify from a link in the Afghanistan capital, Kabul, via interpreters for the Afghani language, Pashto.
Mr McClintock said that although former Governor-General of Australia, Quentin Bryce, would not be testifying, she still supported Mr Roberts-Smith.
"Ms Quentin Bryce ... won't be appearing for personal reasons," Mr McClintock said, but he said that did not mean she was withdrawing her support of his client.
Earlier last week in the Federal Court in Sydney, Justice Wendy Abraham ordered a witness in the forthcoming trial to hand over documents about a military inquiry into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan.
Justice Abraham ruled an SAS soldier known as "Person 35", who will give evidence at the trial, must hand over documents linked to an inquiry by the Inspector-General of Defence into the conduct of Australian soldiers in Afghanistan.
"Person 35" is one of several witnesses who have asked for their evidence to the Inspector-General of Defence inquiry to not be made public.
Justice Abraham said "Person 35" has not been able to successfully argue the need for "public interest immunity".
The newspapers have withdrawn one allegation of unlawful killing from their defence, which involved Roberts-Smith swimming across a river and allegedly shooting an Afghan man.
Nine will contend the killing took place but will no longer contend it was unlawful. Four paragraphs of its defence have been withdrawn.
That killing took place on the same day as Roberts-Smith is alleged to have been involved in the murder of Afghan farmer Ali Jan, who was kicked off a cliff and then shot.
Mr Roberts-Smith has denied those events ever took place.
Last Friday, Mr Roberts-Smith launched a court action against his ex-wife ahead of the start of the start of this week's proceedings.
The action alleged Emma Roberts-Smith had deleted emails and attachments from his account which allegedly may have contained sensitive material of national security significance.
Len Roberts-Smith, a former judge Advocate General of the Australian Defence Force and his wife Sue flew in to Sydney last weekend to "support their son" at the trial after he had been under attack for several years.
"We are very proud of him for the father and son that he is," they said in a statement prior to the commencement of the trial.
"We love and care for him like every parent love and cares for their child."
https://www.news.com.au/national/courts-law/court-told-ben-robertssmith-to-seek-huge-payout-after-reputation-smashed-and-destroyed/news-story/9615a4e6443656b6a70492ad8984d366