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LONDON, March 5 (Reuters) - British newspaper the Mail on
Sunday must publish a front-page statement to say Meghan, the
Duchess of Sussex, had won a privacy case against it, according
to ruling handed down by a London High Court judge on Friday.
Last month, judge Mark Warby ruled the tabloid had breached
the royal's privacy and infringed her copyright by publishing
parts of the five-page letter she wrote to her father, Thomas
Markle, who she fell out with on the eve of her wedding to Queen
Elizabeth's grandson, Prince Harry, in May 2018.
As a consequence of that ruling, Warby has ordered that the
newspaper must a notice on its front page and a statement about
the outcome of the case in its inside pages.
He also ruled that MailOnline must also publish the notice
of Meghan's victory for a week.
"In my judgment these are measured incursions into the
defendant’s freedom to decide what it publishes and does not
publish, that are justified in pursuit of the legitimate aim I
have identified, and proportionate to that aim," Warby said.
"They will involve little if any additional expense, and
certainly nothing approaching the scale of the expense that has
been lavished on this litigation."
Last week, Warby awarded 450,000 pounds ($630,000) on
Tuesday as a provisional payment towards her legal costs, with
her legal team seeking an overall amount of more than 1.5
million pounds
Friday's ruling comes two days before an in-depth interview
Meghan and Harry have given to chat show host Oprah Winfrey is
due to be broadcast on U.S. television.
(Reporting by Michael Holden, writing by Sarah Young)
