Preliminary hearing has been told of extraordinary security procedures required for the appeal which has been set down for 10 days
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Ben Roberts-Smith’s appeal against his landmark defamation loss to the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, and the Canberra Times will be heard by the full bench of the federal court next February amid a repeat of the extraordinary security of his trial, a Sydney court has heard.
The 110-day trial, which concluded in June, attracted elaborate security measures, given the protected status of dozens of special forces witnesses, and the sensitivities of the national security information discussed.
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