The Duchess of Sussex has been granted an interim £450,000 downpayment towards her £1.5m legal costs in her privacy case against the Mail on Sunday. She was granted summary judgment in relation to her privacy claim, and part of her copyright claim,Lord Justice Warby refused ANL permission to appeal against his judgment. The judge said that hearing would also deal with Meghan’s claim under the Data Protection Act, as well as “the issue of copyright ownership’’. Last month, Warby ruled that the publication of Meghan’s letter to her father was “manifestly excessive and hence unlawful”. He said: “It was, in short, a personal and private letter” and these were “inherently private and personal matters”.

Source: The Guardian March 02, 2021 13:57 UTC