The newspaper, which reported a letter from Prince Harry’s wife, Meghan Markle, to her biological father, issued a ruling on the front page to inform them of the loss.
On the 5th (local time), according to Reuters and the Guardian, the British High Court announced on the front page that she had lost the lawsuit filed by Prince Markle on’Mail on Sunday’, and decided on the reverse side to take a stand.
Judge Mark Woby said Mail Online should also post a week-long notice of Prince Mark’s victory.
Last week, Judge Woby ordered the deposit of £450,000 (about 700 million won) for Prince Markle’s lawsuit.
Prince Markle’s side has demanded to pay 750,000 pounds out of the 1.5 million pounds (2.34 billion won) lawsuit costs in advance and to submit an apology on the front page.
Queen Markle sued’Mail on Sunday’ and’Mail Online’, which reported the letter to her father, and the parent company’Associated Newspaper’ for misuse of personal information, violation of information protection law, and copyright infringement. He lost in the first referee, but won in the second referee.
Prince Markle, who married Prince Harry in May 2018, sent a five-page letter to his father, Thomas Markle, in August of the same year. Since then, in February 2019, most of the contents of the letter such as’Mail on Sunday’ were excerpted and sent out as five articles.
Prince Markle argued that the letter was written only to his father, and the Associated Newspapers countered that it would have been mindful of the possibility of the public disclosure of Queen Markle.
But last month, Judge Woby raised Queen Markle’s hand.
He judged that “there was a reasonable expectation that the contents of the letter will be kept private,” at the summary judgment at the time, and “reporting in the mail interfered with such reasonable expectations.”
Judge Warby also admitted to copyright infringement charges in the trial that day. Last month, the Associated Newspapers’ claim “looks not convincing and unfair,” but said it should hold additional trials to sort out.
The Associated Newspapers refuted that multiple people could own the copyright because more than one person contributed to Queen Markle’s letter to her father, but it was not accepted.