Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex has won her privacy breach claim and successfully held the Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) accountable as a 바카라comprehensive win for privacy and copyright바카라 because the damage they do 바카라runs deep바카라.
The 39-year-old also thanked her husband Britain바카라s Prince Harry for his support through the process, as a London High Court ruled in her favour involving articles in February 2019 that published extracts of a 바카라personal and private바카라 letter to her estranged father.
Justice Mark Warby granted a summary judgment as sought by the former actress바카라 legal team in the claim for misuse of private information against the publisher of the 'Mail on Sunday바카라 and 바카라MailOnline바카라.
"The claimant had a reasonable expectation that the contents of the letter would remain private. The 바카라Mail바카라 articles interfered with that reasonable expectation," the judge concluded.
바카라After two long years of pursuing litigation, I am grateful to the courts for holding Associated Newspapers and The Mail on Sunday to account for their illegal and dehumanizing practices,바카라 said Markle in a statement after the judgment.
바카라For these outlets, it바카라s a game. For me and so many others, it바카라s real life, real relationships, and very real sadness. The damage they have done and continue to do runs deep,바카라 she said.
Markle, who is now based in the US with husband Harry and infant son Archie, said in her statement that the judgment was a victory for all because everyone loses when 바카라misinformation sells more than truth바카라 and when companies create their business model to profit from 바카라people바카라s pain바카라.
She added: 바카라The world needs reliable, fact-checked, high-quality news... for today, with this comprehensive win on both privacy and copyright, we have all won. We now know, and hope it creates a legal precedent, that you cannot take somebody바카라s privacy and exploit it in a privacy case, as the defendant has blatantly done over the past two years. 바카라I share this victory with each of you 바카라 because we all deserve justice and truth, and we all deserve better.바카라
The judge in his ruling had noted that the only 바카라tenable justification바카라 for the publication of extracts of the letter was to correct some inaccuracies about the letter, contained in an article in 바카라People바카라 magazine which featured an interview with five friends of Markle.
But he added: "The inescapable conclusion is that, save to the very limited extent I have identified, the disclosures made were not a necessary or proportionate means of serving that purpose. For the most part they did not serve that purpose at all. Taken as a whole the disclosures were manifestly excessive and hence unlawful."
A spokesperson for ANL said: "We are very surprised by today's (Thursday) summary judgment and disappointed at being denied the chance to have all the evidence heard and tested in open court at a full trial. 바카라We are carefully considering the judgment's contents and will decide in due course whether to lodge an appeal."
Markle had brought a case in the High Court in England of breach of copyright, infringement of her privacy, and breaches of the Data Protection Act over articles that showed parts of a letter she had written to her 76-year-old father Thomas Markle in August 2018.
Parts of the exchange between the father and daughter during a strained relationship were published in the newspaper and online in February 2019.
Last year, the High Court had ruled that the newspaper publishers could also include the book 바카라Finding Freedom바카라, written about the royals, their relationship and their decision to step away as frontline British royals, as part of their defense 바카라 a decision Meghan's legal team had tried to get overturned.
Justice Warby has indicated the need for a further hearing in March to decide "the next steps" in the legal action.
With inputs from PTI
