We’ve all sent some zingers over email on occasion. But few people can compete with the sheer volume of late-night email aficionado Bruce McWilliam, Seven West Media’s commercial director and corporate fixer.

There are those in legal circles who file his messages away in dedicated folders – that’s how memorable they can be. But he truly outdid himself in Seven’s failed defamation case against Nine Entertainment on behalf of disgraced soldier Ben Roberts-Smith. There are 8650 emails from McWilliam to Roberts-Smith and his lawyers that will soon be handed over to a Federal Court, to Nine’s lawyers and, ultimately, to the media.