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Michael Pelly

How it could get even worse for Ben Roberts-Smith

After losing his defamation trial, the fallen war hero faces the prospect of a special investigator with a wealth of evidence that can be used against him in a criminal prosecution.

After Kerry Stokes, the most important person in Ben Roberts-Smith’s life right now is Mark Weinberg, KC.

Weinberg is the special investigator in the Office of the Special Investigator (OSI), which was established in 2021 after the Brereton inquiry into war crimes in Afghanistan.

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Michael Pelly was The Australian Financial Review’s legal editor

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