Royal Family News: Court Rules In Favor Of Meghan Markle But Associated Newspapers Could Appeal

British royal family news divulges that the publisher of The Mail On Sunday could appeal a Supreme Court ruling in favor of Meghan Markle as regards its publication of a letter to her father, Thomas Markle.

Meghan chose to sue Associated Newspapers Limited, the publisher of MailOnline, claiming invasion of privacy due to the publication of articles that printed parts of her letter to Markle in August 2018.

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Meghan won the case this year when a judge ruled in her favor without a full trial. ANL then lodged an appeal in November claiming that the case should go to trial.

The publisher’s lawyers said that Markle wanted to refute Meghan’s friends who were interviewed by People magazine. In a ruling today, Sir Geoffrey Vos, Dame Victoria Sharp and Lord Justice Bean dismissed the publisher’s appeal.

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In light of the ruling, a spokesman for Associated Newspapers issued a statement that reads in part, “We are considering an appeal to the Supreme Court in the United Kingdom. We are very disappointed by the decision of the Court of Appeal. It is our strong view that judgment should be given only on the basis of evidence tested at trial, and not on a summary basis in a heavily contested case, before even disclosure of documents. No evidence has been tested in cross-examination, as it should be, especially when Mr Knauf’s evidence raises issues as to the Duchess’s credibility.”

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The statement specifically refers to the People article: “After People magazine published an attack on Mr Markle, based on false briefings from the Duchess’s friends wrongly describing the letter as a loving letter, it was important to show that the letter was no such thing. Both the letter and People magazine also seriously misrepresented the reasons for Mr Markle’s non-attendance at the royal wedding. The articles corrected these matters, and raised other issues of public interest including the reasons for the breakdown in the relationship between the Duchess and her father.”

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Royal Family News – Veracity Of People Magazine Article Is In Dispute

A lawyer for the publisher had told the court that the People article unfairly portrayed Markle. Despite this, Vos said, “It was hard to see what evidence could have been adduced at trial that would have altered the situation. The judge had been in as good a position as any trial judge to look at the article in People magazine, the letter and The Mail On Sunday articles to decide if publication of the contents of the letter was appropriate to rebut the allegations against Mr Markle.”

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