In October 2019, Prince Harry announced a legal fight against tabloids in connection with an invasion of privacy Meghan Markle. It all stems from a letter the Duchess of Sussex wrote in 2018 and which Associated Newspapers Limited, through its publications Mail On Sunday and Mail Online, made public in February of that year. From then on, Meghan would engage in a fierce battle in which all sorts of details were exposed, winning some confrontations but losing others that raised doubts about her position in this case. In October last year, the Duchess’s legal team requested that the trial scheduled for January be postponed for confidential reasons, which the judge accepted, deciding that a new hearing would take place earlier this year. In it, Sussex lawyers asked for the case to be resolved without going to trial, a situation that occurred this morning when the judge ruled in Meghan’s favor, which the duchess celebrated.
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“After two long years of fighting this litigation, I am grateful to the courts for holding the associated newspapers and the post office accountable for their illegal and dehumanizing practices. These tactics (and those of his sister publications MailOnline and Daily Mail) are not new, in fact, they have been going on for a long time without consequences. For those posts, it’s a game. For me and many others, it is real life, real relationships and very real sadness. The damage that has been done and continues to be profound “, the message begins.
“The world needs reliable, revised and high-quality news. What Mail on Sunday and its sister publications do is the opposite. We all lose when misinformation outweighs the truth, when moral exploitation outweighs 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 sets a legal precedent, that you cannot take someone’s privacy and exploit it in a case of confidentiality, as the defendant 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 continued. I want to thank my husband, my mother and my legal team, and especially Jenny Afia for her tireless support throughout this process, “he concluded, referring to his lawyer.
Despite Meghan’s message regarding both aspects of her trial, the copyright law will still have to be established and a hearing will take place in March, when the measures to be taken legally will be decided. In this regard, Judge Warby pointed out that although copyright has been infringed, it remains to be determined whether Meghan wrote the letter alone or did so with the support of her team.. What she won on Thursday was the elimination of the possibility of the trial that was scheduled for October, which would mean that Meghan and her father, Thomas Markle, will face off in court. Recently, the editorial group announced that it is analyzing the possibility of an appeal.
Meghan would not have written the letter of her trial against the tabloids
Judge Warby said of the case this morning: “The applicant had a reasonable expectation that the contents of the letter would be kept private. Mail articles interfered with this reasonable expectation. Regarding the publication, he said: “The only probable justification for such interference is to correct some inaccuracies in the letter.” He added: “The inescapable conclusion is that, except for a very limited measure, I have identified that the disclosures that were made were neither necessary nor proportionate to their intended purposes. For the most part, they served no purpose. In general, the disclosures were excessive and therefore illegal. “
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