Meghan Markle case against UK tabloid delayed a year

The Hearing against a British tabloid for invasion of privacy initiated  Meghan Markle, the wife of Prince Harry,  has been postponed until the end of 2021

The 39-year-old former American actress accuses Associated Newspapers – which publishes Mail Online, The Daily Mail and its Sunday version Mail on Sunday – for violating her privacy by publishing excerpts from a letter addressed to her father, Thomas Markle, in August 2018.

The trial was originally scheduled for January 2021, but lawyers for the Duchess of Sussex, in a hearing closed to the public in London’s High Court on Thursday, October29,  asked to postpone the date “much later in the year”, for a ” confidential reason”.

“The correct decision is to accept the postponement request,” Judge Warby, in charge of the case, said later in a public hearing. “This means that the date of January 11 is canceled and that the trial will be rescheduled for a new date in the fall” of 2021, he added.

In addition to the confidential reason, the judge indicated that the postponement was justified by a legal action initiated by Meghan Markle, who could see the matter resolved without a trial.

On the other hand, the ex-actress intends to appeal against the decision taken by the British justice at the end of last September to authorize the Mail on Sunday to support her defense in the book Finding Freedom, a recent biography about the couple and their estrangement from the British monarchy.