Summary Judgment - Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers
By Skyring at the English language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6852664 Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Mr Justice Warby) HRH The Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2021] EWHC 273 (Ch) (11 Feb 2021) Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Sussex, brought proceedings against the publisher of The Mail on Sunday and The Mail Online for publishing large parts of a letter that she wrote to her father on 27 Aug 2018. Her causes of action were breach of statutory duty under the Data Protection Act 2018, misuse of private information and copyright infringement. I discussed earlier hearings in this litigation in Practice - Mail's Strikeout Application on 17 May 2020 and Confidentiality - Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd on 13 Aug 2020. The Application This was an application by the duchess to strike out the publisher's defence to her claims for misuse of private information an...