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The Supreme Court ordered the Mail On Sunday to publish a front page statement about the Duchess of Sussex’s legal victory over the newspaper last month.
Meghan won your copyright claim on the publication of a letter that she sent to her estranged father, and a judge ruled that she “had a reasonable expectation that the content of the letter would remain private.”
Friday’s ruling said the newspaper must print an additional notice about the outcome of the case on its inside pages.
Lord Justice Warby agreed that Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) “misused (Meghan’s) private information and infringed on her copyright.”
Associated Newspapers, editor of the Mail, was denied permission to appeal.
The 39-year-old Duchess sued ANL over a series of articles reproducing parts of a “heartfelt” letter to 76-year-old Mr. Markle in August 2018.
He claimed that the five articles published in February 2019 involved not only misuse of his private information and violated his copyright, but also violated the Data Protection Act.
Last month, Meghan was awarded summary judgment in relation to her privacy claim, meaning she won that part of the case without going to trial, as well as most of her copyright claim.
At a remote hearing this week, ANL’s lawyers requested permission to appeal against that decision for 10 reasons.
But Lord Justice Warby declined permission to appeal, saying he had “no real prospects” for success.
In last month’s ruling, the judge said the publication of Meghan’s letter to her father was “manifestly excessive and therefore illegal.”
He said: “It was, ultimately, a personal and private letter.
“Most of what was published was about the plaintiff’s own behavior, her feelings of distress over her father’s behavior, as she viewed it, and the resulting rift between them.
“These are inherently private and personal matters.”
