Called it (Meghan and Harry thread)

In February, Meghan Markle experienced a huge legal win against the British tabloid, The Mail on Sunday, for publishing the personal letter that the former Suits star turned Duchess of Sussex had written her father. A UK court granted summary judgment on her contention that the publication was a breach of privacy and copyright, although there was a minor though interesting issue still left to be tried related to whether a public relations official connected to the Crown was involved in the drafting of the letter and thus shared in the copyright.

On Friday came an unusual follow-up ruling (read here) from Justice Warby, a fairly meta one that goes into the coverage of last month's ruling by The Mail and ultimately delivers the decision that the newspaper should feature on its front page word of Markle's win.

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And so, Warby orders that the newspaper publish on its front page in font size no smaller than the headline it originally used (“Meghan’s shattering letter to her father”) word that judgment was given to the Duchess.

This remedy might not pass constitutional muster in the United States, and Warby spends some time analyzing whether it is proper under European law, and he ultimately concludes "It is not, in itself, an objectionable or disproportionate interference with free speech to require a newspaper that has made a wrongful publication to publish a supplementary statement, be it a correction or a reference to the court’s judgment."