Watch: Meghan wins High Court privacy claim
Meghan Markle has won her latest battle against the Mail On Sunday and the MailOnline as a judge ruled there would be no “realistic prospect” of a trial not going her way.
Meghan was awarded a summary judgement by Lord Justice Warby on 12 May, a week after a hearing at the High Court in which the Queen offered her a helping hand.
She was fighting the final claim by the two news outlets, published by Associated Newspapers Ltd (ANL), that she was not the sole author of the letter, and therefore that it was not her copyright alone that had been breached when extracts of it were printed in the paper and online.
But in a ruling on Wednesday a judge said that ANL’s case was “reduced to a speculative hypothesis, founded on hearsay from an unknown source, which lacks corroboration and is contradicted by both the key individuals”.
Read more: Queen denies holding any copyright over controversial letter Meghan Markle wrote to her father
The Duchess of Sussex launched legal action against the Mail On Sunday and MailOnline after the royal tour in southern Africa in October 2019, over a letter she wrote to her father which the paper and website published.
She won her claim that publication was a breach of privacy in February, and was awarded a summary judgement by Lord Justice Warby, meaning there was no trial necessary.
However issues over who owned the copyright, which she said was breached, remained unresolved.
ANL said if the duchess was helped…
