A UK judge has ruled that a British tabloid invaded Meghan Markle’s privacy when she published her emotional letter to her estranged father.
The Duchess of Sussex, 39, sued Associated Newspapers in 2019 – the parent company of the Daily Mail and the Sunday Mail – after publishing parts of a handwritten note she wrote to her father Thomas Markle in August 2018 after he didn’t. I will not come to her wedding to Prince Harry.
Supreme Court Judge Mark Warby sided with the American extortionist finding that “he had a reasonable expectation that the contents of the letter would remain private. Mail articles interfered with that reasonable expectation.”
Warby ruled that the document infringed his copyright and misused his personal information.
Markle said that “with this complete victory in both privacy and copyright, we have all won.”
The former “Suits” star said he appreciated the ruling, which blames the publisher for “his illegal and dehumanizing practices.”
By contrast, Associated Newspapers said it was considering whether to appeal.
The editor added that he was “very surprised by today’s summary judgment and disappointed by the denial of the opportunity to have all the evidence heard and tried in a public court in a full trial.”
Although Markle won the case regarding privacy and copyright infringement, the judge said she still wanted to determine if she was the sole author of the letter in the face of defense allegations that a spokeswoman helped her write it down.
Last month, Markle won a bid for a summary judgment from a judge that allowed him to avoid a highly publicized fall trial.
Last May, Warby attacked some of the king’s claims against the newspaper, accusing him of “deliberately provoking” and causing a fracture, which he found irrelevant to his claims of privacy and violation of human rights. author.
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