Lawyers for UK's Meghan seek to stop privacy case going to trial

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Meghan is suing Associated Newspapers after its Mail on Sunday printed extracts of a handwritten letter she sent to her estranged father, Thomas Markle, in August 2018.

, Britain's Duchess of Sussex, asked a London judge on Tuesday, January 19, to rule in her favor in a privacy case against a tabloid newspaper without a trial, arguing the publication has no prospect of winning.Mail on Sunday

She is seeking aggravated damages, saying the publication of the letter was a misuse of private information and breached her copyright. At the start of a two-day hearing at London's High Court, Meghan's lawyer, Justin Rushbrooke, said judge Mark Warby should give a summary judgment in favor of the former US actress as the paper's arguments had"no reasonable grounds" of success and did not stand up to scrutiny.had broken the code of conduct that British newspapers worked by, and the case raised"a disturbing question" about who controlled the contents of a private letter.

 

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