Upholding Lord Justice Warby's previous summary judgement, they said: "It was hard to see what evidence could have been adduced at trial that would have altered the situation. 'It was not necessary to deploy half the contents of the letter' Lawyers representing the publisher said Mr Markle had wished to counter points made by friends of his daughter, who had given an interview to People magazine in the US.īut, in a ruling on Thursday, Sir Geoffrey Vos, Dame Victoria Sharp and Lord Justice Bean dismissed the publisher's appeal and said the new evidence presented by the newspaper publisher was "of little assistance" to the case. She had already been granted a summary judgement in her favour, after she sued the newspaper publisher for a breach of her privacy, data protection and copyright.Īssociated Newspapers Limited (ANL) had appealed the High Court decision, presenting new evidence in the form of emails and text messages which showed the Duchess had written the letter "with the understanding that it could be leaked" and had authorised her staff to brief the authors of Finding Freedom.
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The Duchess, who has hailed her victory as being "not just for me, but for anyone who has ever felt scared to stand up for what’s right", has won the support of appeal judges, who found the case over her handwritten letter to her father should not be heard at full trial. The Duchess of Sussex has won her Court of Appeal case against the Mail on Sunday, as judges rule her "unfortunate lapse of memory" over briefing her biographers should not change the outcome.
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