• Courts Meghan Markle loses first legal battle against 'Mail on Sunday' tabloid

  • Meghan Markle agreement puts an end to one of her court disputes with the paparazzi

The Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, won her legal battle on Thursday against the publishing company of the British tabloid newspapers' Mail On Sunday 'and MailOnline' for having violated her privacy

by publishing a letter that she addressed to her father, Thomas Markle

.

The High Court of London ruled that the wife of the Duke of Sussex, Henry, "had reasonable confidence that the contents of the letter would be private."

Markle sued the

Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) group

, publisher of the aforementioned newspapers,

for misuse of private information, violation of "copyright" and infringement of data protection law

, which they reproduced in a series of five articles - published in February 2019 - parts of the letters sent in August 2018.

The judge considered that the publication of the text was "manifestly excessive, and therefore illegal", since it was "a personal and private letter", which addressed aspects of the bad relationship between the father and his daughter, who felt

"distraught" by the behavior of her parent.

All of this, for the court's consideration, are "inherently private and personal matters", so it

was "reasonable" for Markle to assume that its content would not come to

public

light

, something in which "the articles of the 'Mail' interfered" .

The magistrate used the "summary judgment" route to pronounce, which means that part of the case is resolved without the need to go to trial, although the accusation of infringing the "copyright" must do so due to doubts about the material authorship of the missive.

The charge for violation of data protection law is also pending resolution.

A new hearing will be held in March to stipulate the next steps in the process, the judge added.

"DEHUMANIZING PRACTICES"

The Duchess of Sussex reacted to the decision in a statement in which she expressed her gratitude to the court for "holding Associated Newspapers and the 'Mail on Sunday' responsible for their

illegal and dehumanizing practices."

"These tactics - and those of their sister publications 'MailOnline' and 'Daily Mail' - are not new. In fact, they have been done for too long without consequences.

For these media, it is a game.

For me and so many others, it's real life, real relationships and very real sadness, "he said.

Markle, 39, believes that

the world "needs reliable media" and "what the 'Mail On Sunday' and these publications do is" the opposite "

, so he believes that with his victory" we all win ". that the Superior Court decision sets a legal precedent so that no one's privacy is "exploited again."

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