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Kneepads once again proved it is state media for the former alliterate actress turned GOOP wannabe.

In reporting on the big loss the alliterate one took in court last week, the tabloid “forgot” to ask for a statement from the other side or print one of the dozens of statements from prominent lawyers in England who called the case laughable.

Meghan Markle

People magazine

Meghan Markle’s Case Against Mail on Sunday ‘Will Continue’ After Judge Rules Against Parts of Her Claim

Meghan Markle will “continue to move forward” with her case against Associated Newspapers — publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday — after the judge ruled against parts of her claim that were presented in a pre-trial hearing last week.

Meghan, 38, is suing publishers Associated Newspapers and the Mail on Sunday for publishing extracts of what she describes as a “private and confidential” letter sent to her father, Thomas Markle, in August 2018 — three months after her wedding to Prince Harry.

In a written judgment made public on Friday, the judge, Justice Warby, agreed to “strike out” parts of Meghan’s claim, which were put forward to the High Court in London on April 24. (Meghan and Prince Harry listened in on last week’s pre-trial hearing remotely from L.A. via video link amid the coronavirus pandemic.)

This means that when the case goes to trial, the court will not be asked to rule on whether the Mail on Sunday acted dishonestly, pursued a negative agenda against Meghan or deliberately stirred up trouble between the Duchess of Sussex and her father, Thomas Markle, 75. During the pre-trial hearing, the newspaper said that Meghan’s team didn’t have enough proof of dishonesty – mainly because it’s a state of mind.

Instead, the legal case will now focus purely on whether the Mail on Sunday infringed Meghan’s privacy and U.K. laws surrounding copyright and data protection by printing excerpts of a handwritten letter she sent to her dad in August 2018.

“I do not consider the allegations in question go to the ‘heart’ of the case, which at its core concerns the publication of five articles disclosing the words of, and information drawn from, the letter written by the claimant to her father in August in 2018,” Justice Warby wrote in the summary of his findings.

Friday’s legal ruling is the first stage in the lawsuit, which is expected to go to a full trial in late 2020 or early 2021. – Source

Duchess Meghan loses opening legal battle against British tabloid; she vows to press case

Duchess Meghan is not giving up her legal tussle with a British tabloid despite an early setback announced Friday.

Parts of Meghan’s lawsuit against the publisher of the tabloid Daily Mail were deleted in a ruling issued in London, leaving her the loser in the opening legal bout but vowing to pursue her core complaints of copyright and privacy infringement.

“Massive setback,” the Daily Mail said in its headline about the ruling by Justice Mark Warby, issued following a preliminary hearing in the case last Friday conducted via video conference due to the coronavirus pandemic lockdown still gripping Britain.

In a statement issued to USA TODAY by her London legal firm, Schillings, her team said the ruling makes clear her main allegation in her lawsuit she filed last fall – that the Mail on Sunday and the online Daily Mail published her 2018 private letter to her estranged father in violation of British law – remains and is winnable.

“The Duchess of Sussex’s rights were violated; the legal boundaries around privacy were crossed,” the statement said. “As part of this process, the extremes to which The Mail on Sunday used distortive, manipulative, and dishonest tactics to target the Duchess of Sussex have been put on full display. ”

But the judge’s ruling struck out her claims of the tabloid’s alleged dishonesty and malice, ruling that they are irrelevant to her lawsuit as a matter of law and precedent.

“I do not consider the allegations in question go to the ‘heart’ of the case, which at its core concerns the publication of five articles disclosing the words of, and information drawn from, the letter written by (Meghan) to her father in August in 2018,” the ruling said. – Source

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