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The Court of Appeal has rejected Associated Newspapers’ call for a trial over publication of a personal letter to her estranged father, Thomas Markle.
The Duchess of Sussex, 39, previously sued Associated Newspapers Ltd (ANL), the publisher of MailOnline and Mail On Sunday for breach of copyright, infringement of her privacy and breaches of the Data Protection Act.
The case relates to articles which showed parts of a letter she had written to her father in August 2018.
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Court of Appeal reject calls for a trial in Meghan Markle’s privacy fight
In a ruling on Thursday, Sir Geoffrey Vos, Dame Victoria Sharp and Lord Justice Bean dismissed the appeal.
Giving a summary of the Court of Appeal’s decision to dismiss Associated Newspapers’ appeal, Sir Geoffrey Vos said: “The Court of Appeal upheld the judge’s decision that the duchess had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the contents of the letter.
“Those contents were personal, private and not matters of legitimate public interest.
“The articles in the Mail on Sunday interfered with the duchess’ reasonable expectation of privacy and were not a justified or proportionate means of correcting inaccuracies about the letter.”
Reading a summary of their decision, Sir Geoffrey added: “It was hard to see what evidence could have been adduced at trial that would have altered the situation.
“The judge had been in as good a position as any trial judge to look at the article in People magazine, the letter and The Mail On Sunday articles to decide if publication of the contents of the letter was appropriate to rebut the allegations against Mr Markle.
“The judge had correctly decided that, whilst it might have been proportionate to publish a very small part of the letter for that purpose, it was not necessary to publish half the contents of the letter as ANL had done.”
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Source : times
