News of the loss of a British newspaper in a lawsuit involving Meghan Markle is expected to appear on its front page – and be posted on its website for an entire week, a UK judge ruled, according to a report.
The Duchess of Sussex and her husband, Prince Harry, in 2019, sued Associated Newspapers Ltd. (ANL) – publisher of The Mail and its website – claiming that the publications invaded Markle’s privacy and infringed his copyright by obtaining and publish the content of a letter from Markle to her father, Thomas Markle, reported by The Guardian.
Articles about the letter appeared on The Mail on Sunday and TheMailOnline, according to The Guardian.
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Mail’s warning of his defeat in court should appear on the front page of The Mail on Sunday and should be posted on the site for an entire week – and include a hyperlink to the court’s decision in full, decided by Superior Court Judge Lord Justice Warby, according to The Guardian.
Markle had requested that the notice remain online for six months, “to act as a deterrent for future offenders,” but Warby “was not persuaded” that six months were appropriate, The Guardian reported.
In his decision, Warby wrote that the requested front-page notice was “modest in comparison”, considering that The Mail spent more than two years devoting “a considerable amount of space” to articles that infringed Markle’s privacy.
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The judge’s decision included a formal statement that the ANL “has abused its private information and infringed its copyright,” added The Guardian.
ANL lawyers were not allowed to appeal the decision, the report said.
A taped television interview of Markle and Prince Harry speaking with Oprah Winfrey is scheduled to air on Sunday night on CBS.