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Century and Harbor Freeway Interchange Author Remi Jouan   Licence CC BY-SA 3.0   Source Wikimedia Commons   Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Sir Geoffrey Vos MR, Dame Victoria Sharp, President, Lord Justice Bean)  HRH the Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2021] EWCA Civ 1810 (2 Dec 2021) This was an appeal against the decisions of Mr Justice Warby in  HRH The Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2021] EWHC 273 (Ch)  on 11 Feb 2021 and HRH Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd . [2021] EWHC 1245 (Ch) on 12 May 2021.   I discussed those judgments in  Summary Judgment - Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers   and   Copyright - Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd   on 12 Feb and 13 June 2021 respectively.  The Litigation The duchess sued the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and the MailOnline after they had reproduced and commented upon large passages from a handwritten letter ...

Author The Lud   Licence Copyright waiver   Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Lord Justice Warby) Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2021] EWHC 1245 (Ch) (12 May 2021) At a directions hearing before Lord Justice Warby on 5 May 2021, His Lordship granted summary judgment to the Duchess of Sussex in her claim for copyright infringement against the publisher of The Mail on Sunday and The Mail Online. He made a number of consequential orders and gave directions for the taking of an account of profits.  His judgment in  Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2021] EWHC 1245 (Ch) (12 May 2021) sets out the reasons for those orders and directions. The Litigation The Duchess of Sussex sued Associated Newspapers because The Mail on Sunday and The Mail Online published large extracts of a letter that she wrote to her father.  Her causes of action were misuse of private information, breach of her statutory rights under the Data Protection Act 1998 and ...

By Seauton , 24 February 2019 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,   Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Lord Justice Warby) HRH the Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2021] EWHC 669 (Ch) (22 March 2021) Following the largely successful summary judgment application by Her Royal Highness, The Duchess of Sussex against the publisher of The Mail on Sunday and the MailOnline in HRH The Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd . [2021] WLR(D) 100, [2021] 4 WLR 35, [2021] EWHC 273 (Ch) which I discussed in Summary Judgment - Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers on 12 Feb 2021, Lord Justice Warby granted a declaration, injunction and publication order to the duchess and gave directions for the conduct of the remaining proceedings in HHR The Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2021] EWHC 510 (Ch) (5 March 2021). I discussed those proceedings in Judgment and Order: Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd on 9 March 2021, There remained issues over the wordin...

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...

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) Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd ( Rev 1) [2020] EWHC 2160 (Ch) (5 Aug 2020) This was an application by the claimant for an order to restrain the publisher of the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday from using information that she had supplied in response to a request for further information under CPR Part 18 about the identity of individuals who had provided information on the claimant in confidence to the US magazine The People  for any purpose other than the defence of a claim that had been brought against it for misuse of personal information, infringement of copyright and breach of the General Data Protection Regulation. The application came on before Mr Justice Warby on 29 July 2020 and he handed down judgment in  Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd ( Rev ...

Basher Eyre /  Junction of Fetter Lane and Rolls Buildings  /  CC BY-SA 2.0 Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Mr Justice Warby)  Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd (Rev 1) [2020] EWHC 1058 (Ch) (1 May 2020) This was an application by the publisher of the Mail on Sunday  and the Mail Online  to strike out certain allegations contained in the particulars of claim and further information of the Duchess of Sussex  and later the reply  in an action that she has brought against the publisher for copyright infringement, misuse of private information and infringement of her rights under the General Data Protection Regulation .  The complaint arises from the newspaper's publication of a letter from the duchess to her father on 10 Feb 2019. Nature of the Application It is important to understand from the outset that this was a procedural application and that no decision has been made on the merits of the Duchess o...