Duchess Meghan
Your lawyers want to end the process quickly
Duchess Meghan, in early 2020 in London
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Duchess Meghan is suing a publisher for allegedly violating her privacy. Your lawyers now want a fast-track trial.
In the legal dispute with the publisher of the British Sunday newspaper "Mail on Sunday", the lawyers of Duchess Meghan (39, "Suits") want to get a quick trial. As the "Guardian" reports, they now demanded a so-called "Summary Judgment" in a hearing scheduled for two days, which could fall without a full trial and could significantly shorten the procedure.
The "Mail on Sunday" and the "Mail Online" website had published several articles in early 2019 in which excerpts from a letter from the Duchess to her father Thomas Markle (76) were printed, which Meghan is said to have sent in the summer of 2018.
A "clear and serious" intervention
According to the lawyers, the letter was a "heartfelt request from a pain-plagued daughter to her father". The publications had published the private letter for "millions of readers," said one of their lawyers. It was a "clear and serious" intrusion into the privacy of his client.
The case raised a "worrying question": who has the right to dispose of the contents of a private letter? Regardless of whether it is a question of a duchess or another citizen, be it not the "Mail on Sunday". It is currently not clear whether a decision will be made directly after the hearing. Should there be a process, it is expected for autumn 2021.