The owners of the Mail on Sunday have finally capitulated in the privacy and breach of copyright case brought by the Duchess of Sussex, abandoning any idea of a further appeal and agreeing to pay an undisclosed sum in settlement. Continue reading
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When the Court of Appeal hands down its judgment in the case of the Duchess of Sussex versus the Mail on Sunday newspaper on Thursday morning (London time), one thing is certain: the Mail and its friends in the UK corporate press will misrepresent it. Continue reading
The hearing of the appeal by the publisher of the Mail on Sunday against the High Court privacy and copyright ruling in favour of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, ended today and the judges said they would announce their decision ‘in due course’ – probably a matter of weeks. Continue reading
The publishers of the Mail on Sunday will appeal next week against their humiliating defeat in the copyright and privacy case brought by Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex. The Duchess sued and won in the London High Court after the paper had published substantial extracts from a letter she wrote to her estranged father, Thomas Markle. Continue reading
There are portions of Lord Justice Warby’s most recent judgment in the litigation between Meghan Markle and Associated Newspapers [2021] EWHC 510 (Ch). that read as if he was dealing with a contempt of court case. So trenchant are the phrases he uses to deploy the novel remedy of an enforced publication on the front page and page 3 of The Mail on Sunday and similar for its online relative MailOnline that the phrase “cruel and unusual punishment” springs to mind. Continue reading
“I would sit up at night, and I was just, like, I don’t understand how all of this is being churned out … And I just didn’t want to be alive anymore.” This stark admission from the Duchess of Sussex during her and her husband’s much-anticipated interview with Oprah Winfrey captures how press treatment of Meghan drove the couple’s decision to step back from royal duties. Continue reading
Three weeks after their crushing legal defeat at the hands of the Duchess of Sussex last month, the owners of the Mail on Sunday returned to court in characteristically belligerent form – and had another bad day. Continue reading
“Publishers and their legal teams will fear that yesterday’s victory for the Duchess of Sussex is a leap towards a judge made privacy law” ran The Times article the day after Mr Justice Warby granted Summary Judgment in Meghan’s case against the Mail on Sunday (HRH The Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspaper Limited [2021] EWHC 273 (Ch)). Continue reading
The big British newspapers, and especially the papers of the Mail group, want control. They want to make people behave in ways of which they approve and they will stop at nothing to ensure they do. Continue reading
The Duchess of Sussex has won her privacy case against the Mail on Sunday after a judge said there were “compelling reasons” for it not to go to trial over its publication of extracts of a private letter to her estranged father, Thomas Markle. Judgment in the case of HRH The Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2021] EWHC 273 (Ch) was handed down today. Continue reading
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