Last Updated on: 14th July 2023, 10:03 pm
London Court Of Appeals Ruling On Meghan Markle’s Data Protection Case Will Be Presented Next Week
A UK court will rule next week on an Associated Newspapers appeal against an earlier ruling that it violated Meghan Markle’s privacy by sending a letter to her father, court lists said on Friday.
The newspaper group that publishes Mail am Sonntag, Daily Mail and MailOnline are appealing a High Court decision that the letter deserves privacy.
The judges are expected to give their verdict next Thursday.
Meghan scored a complete victory in February when a judge agreed that parts of the 2018 letter published the following year was “apparently exaggerated and … illegal.”
The judge ordered Associated Newspapers to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds in interim legal fees and to print a front-page statement confirming her legal victory.
But that was put on hold while she appealed the verdict, arguing that Meghan wrote the correspondence knowing she was in danger of being revealed and despite claiming otherwise.
Her letter to her ex-father Thomas Markle was written a few months after Queen Elizabeth II’s grandson, Prince Harry.
In it, he asked her to stop talking to the tabloids and making false statements about her in interviews with her.
Meghan, 40, and Harry, 37, who now reside in the United States after resigning from their front-line royal duties last year, have taken legal action against several publications alleging breach of the law.
Associated Newspapers bases its offer to the London Court of Appeal in part on the testimony of former Meghan communications consultant Jason Knauf.
Earlier this month, she apologized to the court after admitting that she had been involved in a favorable biography of her brief tenure as royals at the front in the UK, although she and Harry have already done so. denied.
The editors submitted testimony from Knauf, stating that the couple had provided information to the authors of the “Finding Freedom” biography.
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The bestseller was “discussed regularly” and “discussed several times directly with the duchess in person and via email,” he added.
In her own testimony, Meghan apologized for misleading the court and admitted that she had forgotten that Knauf had given information to the perpetrators and even met her “acquaintances”.
“I am not aware of the amount of information he has shared,” she added, noting that “he had absolutely no will or intention to mislead the defendant or the court.”
