Ex-wife of Ben Roberts-Smith accused of sharing his email password and accessing his account

Telstra information recommend a detailed buddy of Ben Roberts-Smith’s ex-wife could have accessed the struggle veteran’s email account greater than 100 occasions, a Sydney courtroom has heard.

The case Mr Roberts-Smith launched in opposition to Emma Roberts is operating concurrently with his high-stakes defamation proceedings in opposition to three newspapers.

It was triggered when his defamation opponents issued a discover to provide particular paperwork, which his authorized crew suspects could have arisen from entry to an email account he used for confidential authorized correspondence.

Mr Roberts-Smith’s attorneys have accused Ms Roberts of accessing the account and say they’re involved she could have handed on confidential data to 3rd events.

His barrister, Arthur Moses SC, at present utilized within the Federal Court so as to add Ms Roberts’ finest buddy Danielle Scott and her husband as respondents within the case.

Mr Moses cited Telstra information which he claimed established that both Ms Scott or her husband accessed a “internet hosting account” of Ben Roberts-Smith’s firm, RS Group Australia.

He advised the courtroom the entry occurred “on no less than 101 events” between January 2020 and May 2021.

“The RS Group Australia email internet hosting account … is password-protected and permits an individual, as soon as logged on, to entry the email account of any RS Group person, together with the applicant’s,” Mr Moses stated.

Mr Roberts-Smith has beforehand sworn in an affidavit that Ms Scott or her husband had been by no means given the password.

Mr Moses stated the Telstra proof raised a collection of new points, together with how the couple accessed the password, whether or not they accessed Mr Roberts-Smith’s particular email account, and whether or not they handed on any confidential data to 3rd events.

Mr Moses stated if Ms Scott and her husband weren’t added as respondents, there can be “a foundation to start separate proceedings in opposition to them”.

Had his shopper been conscious of the Telstra information earlier, he would have included the pair as respondents when the case started, Mr Moses stated.

Justice Robert Bromwich reserved his resolution.

Mr Roberts-Smith’s defamation case, in opposition to The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Canberra Times, is on maintain till no less than November resulting from Sydney’s COVID-19 outbreak.

He alleges he was defamed by studies that included allegations of struggle crimes in Afghanistan, bullying of colleagues and home violence upon a girl in a Canberra lodge room.

Ms Roberts shall be a defence witness within the defamation trial.