Stokes gets $13.5m bill for Robert-Smith’s failed action against Nine

Billionaire Seven West Media chairman Kerry Stokes has been ordered to pay $13.5 million in Nine Entertainment’s legal costs after backing war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith in his failed defamation action against The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age .

Stokes, who once employed Roberts-Smith as a Seven executive in Queensland, was the disgraced soldier’s biggest financial backer, bankrolling the initial defamation trial. He did not fund Roberts-Smith’s appeal. Loading...