In October 2019, the Prince Harry announced that a legal battle would be waged against the tabloids for an invasion of the privacy of Meghan Markle. It all stemmed from a letter the Duchess of Sussex wrote in 2018 that Associated Newspapers Limited through her publications Mail On Sunday and Mail Online had made public in February of that year. Since then, Meghan would engage in a fierce battle in which all sorts of details were uncovered, winning some clashes but losing others that cast doubt on the position he would be in the case. It was last October when the Duchess’s legal team requested that the trial scheduled for January be postponed for confidential reasons, which the judge agreed to decide that earlier this year would be held. a new audience. In it, Sussex lawyers requested that the case be resolved without going to trial, a situation that occurred this morning when the judge ruled in Meghan’s favor, which the Duchess has celebrated.
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“After two long years fighting this litigation, I am grateful to the Cortes for holding Associated Newspapers and The Mail on Sunday accountable for their illegal and dehumanizing practices. These tactics (and those of his sister publications MailOnline and the Daily Mail) are not new, in fact, they have been happening for a long time without consequences. For these posts, it’s a game. For me and many others, it’s real life, real relationships, and very real sadness. The damage that has been done and continues to be done is profound, “the message begins.
“The world needs reliable, revised, high-quality news. What Mail on Sunday and its sister publications do is the opposite. We all lose when misinformation sells more than truth, when moral exploitation sells more than decency, and when companies create their business models by taking advantage of people’s pain.. But today, with this comprehensive triumph in terms of both privacy and copyright, we have all won. We now know and hope that this will set a legal precedent, that you cannot take someone’s privacy and exploit it in a privacy case, as the accused has blatantly done in the last two years. ”
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“I share this victory with each of you, because we all deserve justice and truth, and we all deserve (something) better,” Meghan’s message continued, “Particularly, i want to thank my husband, my mother and my legal team“And especially to Jenny Afia for her tireless support throughout this process,” she said.
Despite Meghan’s message referring to both aspects of her lawsuit, the copyright one has yet to be determined and for that there will be a hearing in March when the steps to be taken legally are decided. On this issue, Judge Warby has pointed out that although copyright was violated, it remains to be determined whether Meghan wrote the letter alone or did so in support of her team.. What he won this Thursday has been the elimination of the possibility of the trial scheduled for October, which would mean that Meghan and her father, Thomas Markle, will face off in court. For the last few moments, the editorial group has announced that it is analyzing the possibility of an appeal.
Meghan would not have written the letter of her lawsuit against the tabloids alone
Judge Warby said of the case this morning: “The plaintiff had a reasonable expectation that the contents of the letter would be kept private. Mail articles interfered with that reasonable expectation.” On the publication he referred: “The only probable justification for such interference is to correct some inaccuracies on the letter.” And he added: “The conclusion that cannot be escaped is that, except for a very limited extent, I have identified that the revelations that were made were neither necessary nor proportionate to the purposes that were intended. For the most part, they had no purpose. “Overall, the revelations were excessive and therefore illegal.”
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