Source: Crazy Days and Nights
Much like the Amber Heard/Johnny Depp trial, it looks like the alliterate one and witnesses will have to appear in person for the trial.
If that does happen, rather than allowing virtual testifying, it will just give the alliterate one another reason to drop the case.
Meghan Markle
Meghan Markle Hits a Major Setback in Her Tabloid Trial
Though Finding Freedom, this summer’s bombshell royal biography of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, was published long after Meghan filed suit against Associated Newspapers, the parent company of Mail on Sunday, it will now be part of the upcoming tabloid trial. After last week’s preliminary hearing when Meghan’s lawyers argued that it was not relevant, a judge ruled Tuesday that the book will be admissible when the case finally goes to trial next year.
According to Hello, Judge Francesca Kaye ruled against Meghan on the matter because she believed the case to include the book didn’t raise any “new defenses” but rather furthered the arguments the company had already presented. She added that Meghan “knows the case she has to meet,” and “there is no suggestion [in the ruling] that she is in fact unable to do so.”
At the hearing last week, both sides in the case had been arguing about whether Meghan and Harry had given their friends permission to speak to Finding Freedom’s authors, Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand. The Mail’s lawyer, Antony White, argued that it “gives every appearance of having been written with their extensive cooperation.” Upon the book’s publication, the couple’s representatives released a statement saying that they did not provide interviews or collaborate on the book’s content, and Meghan’s lawyer Justin Rushbrooke repeated that claim in court. – Source
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