The “Mail on Sunday” had been sentenced for infringement of privacy after publishing a letter that the Duchess had written to his father. The Court of Appeal rejected the appeal of the newspaper publisher, the conviction is confirmed.
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The former actress Meghan Markle was successful, Thursday, December 2, against the British tabloid Mail on Sunday, convicted for the publication of a letter which she had written to her father, a victory likely to repair a Cruel sensation press and false, according to Prince Harry’s wife.
Tell himself disappointed by the decision of the Court of Appeal who rejected his appeal against his conviction for infringement of privacy, the publisher of the Mail on Sunday , the associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) group, announced that it was planning to enter the Supreme Court.
The Grand Drawer disputed a February court decision, according to which the publication of Meghan’s letter to his father was “obviously excessive and therefore illegal”. In particular, he lamented that the decision was taken at first instance without going through a good and due trial.
Condemned to pay 530,000 euros to Meghan Markle
“The Court of Appeal keeps the judge’s decision that the Duchess could reasonably expect respect for his private life,” said Judge Geoffrey, stressing that the content of the letter was “personal, private and did not show a legitimate interest in the public interest “.
“What matters most is that we are now collectively brave enough to reshape a tabloid industry that pushes people to be cruel and takes advantage of the lies and pain they create”, S ‘ Rejoices M me Markle after the decision of the Court of Appeal. Denouncing on multiple occasions the pressure of the media on his couple, Harry, 37, has also made the main reason for his setting up the royal family and his exile in California with his wife, where they live with their two children.
“In this missive published in 2018, shortly after his marriage with Prince Harry, the Duchess of Sussex asked his father, Thomas Markle, 77, to stop spraying and lying in the media on their broken relationship. . The Mail on Sunday had been sentenced to report “one” of his judicial defeat, and his publisher to pay 450,000 pounds (530,000 euros) to M me Markle for his legal costs. But the tabloid had argued in his appeal, examined in November, that she wrote the letter knowing that she could be disclosed.
The letter written with the possibility “that she could trust”
Meghan Markle denounced the practices “without rules” of this publication, which he returned “a simple extremely albited case, in order to generate even more titles and to sell more newspapers – a model that rewards chaos rather than the truth “.
In order to support his words, the mail on sunday had put forward during the hearings on appeal the testimony of Jason Knauf, former secretary to the communication of the couple, who had said that the draft letter had been written in Having in mind “she could cure”. In a written testimony, Meghan had refuted this statement, considering that it was only a “possibility”.
bringing water to the tabloid mill, who wanted to demonstrate that she was looking forward to influencing public opinion, Mr. Knauf had also said he had provided the name of Meghan and Harry with private information to the authors of biography Unofficial of the royal couple, Finding Freedom (Harry and Meghan, free, in its French translation). M me Markle ended up recognizing it and apologized for misleading justice by not having specified it in first instance, a back-edge that earned him the mockery of the tabloids.
She argued, however, that the information shared with the authors were “far from the very detailed personal information” published by the mail on sunday. But the spokesperson of ANL pointed out that “no evidence has been subjected to cross-examination, as it should be, especially when the evidence provided by Mr. Knauf raise questions about the credibility of the duchess “.