Meghan to get front-page statement after privacy win in UK
March 05, 2021  23:19
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A UK judge ruled on Friday that the 'Mail on Sunday' must publish a front-page statement about Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, winning her privacy claim against the newspaper's publishers Associated Newspapers Limited over articles that published extracts of a letter to her estranged father. 

Lord Justice Mark Warby said in his high court ruling the newspaper must print a single statement on the front page, referring readers to a further statement on page three. The 'MailOnline' website must also publish the statement "for a period of one week".

"The defendant [ANL] devoted a very considerable amount of space to the infringing articles, which it continued to publish for over two years," the ruling notes.

"It has devoted a very considerable number of further column inches, and many hundreds if not thousands of words, to coverage of earlier stages of this litigation and commentary upon them. The wording sought is modest by comparison and factual in nature," it reads.

Last month, Markle won her privacy claim and most of her copyright claim as the judge ruled the letter to her father Thomas Markle was "personal and private" and the 39-year-old former American actress and the wife of Prince Harry had a "reasonable expectation that the contents of the letter would remain private".

-- PTI
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