Mail on Sunday publisher wins first skirmish in Meghan privacy case over letter
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breakingnews.ieThe publisher of the Mail on Sunday has won the first UK High Court skirmish in Britain's Duchess of Sussex’s claim against it over publication of a “private and confidential” letter to her estranged father.
Meghan is suing Associated Newspapers over five articles, two in the Mail on Sunday and three on MailOnline, which were published in February 2019 and reproduced parts of a handwritten letter she sent to Thomas Markle, 75, in August 2018.
A preliminary hearing, in which lawyers for the publisher asked for parts of the duchess’s case to be struck out, was held last week, with the judge sitting at the Royal Courts of Justice in London and lawyers and reporters attending remotely.
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