The Mail on Sunday will pay the Duchess of Sussex just a pound in damages for violating her privacy by publishing a private letter she sent to her father.
The amount is set out in court documents that also formally confirm that the newspaper – and its “sister” MailOnline website – have conceded defeat and will not refer the long-running case to the Supreme Court.
The medium will also pay an unspecified amount for the special case of Meghan’s copyright infringement by publishing large chunks of the letter.
“Normally you would expect 75 75,000 to .000 125,000 for this kind of privacy breach,” said Mark Stephens, a media lawyer.
The newspaper’s publisher also agreed to pay a confidential amount as compensation for copyright infringement. Mail on Sunday will also have to cover a significant portion of Meghan’s legal costs, which could exceed 1 1 million.
The Duchess has always said that her three-year lawsuit against Associated Newspapers, the publisher of Mail on Sunday and its sister site MailOnline, was more about principles than money.
Mail on Sunday and MailOnline have also been instructed to make it public on the front and home pages that they have lost the legal case, with courts even specifying in which font the statements should appear.
The media chose to do this on Boxing Day, one of the quietest news days of the year.
The Associated Newspapers had argued that Meghan’s case should have gone to trial, but the judges ruled otherwise.
Meghan celebrated the victory by calling for a reform of the tabloid industry and talking about how patient she was in the face of “deception, intimidation and calculated attacks”, while criticizing the “tabloid industry that puts people tough and profitable” from the lies “.
The Associated Newspapers at the time also claimed that she was willing to refer the case to the Supreme Court, but this turned out to be an empty threat.
Guardian
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