Trial held up due to Covid and fall of Kabul now waits for evidence release by new attorney general and reappearance of Person 27
Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation case – first filed in 2018 – has borne delays for Covid and national security concerns, been rearranged because of the fall of Kabul, and now, in its final days of evidence, the trial has been further stalled by a change of government and witnesses who can’t be found.
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