メーガン妃、英メディアに勝訴　名目的賠償１ポンド

【ロンドンＡＦＰ＝時事】英国のヘンリー王子の妻メーガン妃が、プライバシー侵害で英大手新聞社グループのアソシエーテッド・ニューズペーパーズを訴えていた裁判で、英控訴院は、メーガン妃側の主張を認め、名目的損害賠償として１ポンド（約１６０円）の支払いを命じた。（写真はヘンリー英王子の妻メーガン妃）
　判決は先月下され、アソシエーテッド側の弁護士が５日、その詳細を公表した。１ポンドの損害賠償は個人情報の悪用に対して支払われる。加えて、メーガン妃の著作権を侵害したことに対しても賠償金が支払われる。金額は公表されていないが、メーガン妃の広報担当者によると「相当な」額で、慈善事業に寄付される予定。
　アソシエーテッド側はさらに、メーガン妃に訴訟費用として３０万ポンド（約４７００万円）を支払う。英ＢＢＣによると、同社は「長期化した裁判の敗北を受け入れた」という。
　アソシエーテッドは、大衆紙メール・オン・サンデーやインターネットサイトのメールオンラインを発行している。メーガン妃は、疎遠になっている父トーマス・マークルさんに送った手紙の内容がメール・オン・サンデーに掲載されたことを受け、２０１９年にアソシエーテッドを提訴していた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】

〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2022/01/06-11:31）

Meghan Markle, wife to Prince Harry, has won nominal damages of £1 from one of Britain's biggest newspaper groups after an appeals court ruled in her favour over a privacy case.
The sum, equating to $1.40 or 1.20 euros, is payable by Associated Newspapers for misuse of private information, and it will also have to pay a confidential sum for infringing her copyright.
A spokesperson for the Duchess of Sussex said the sum for copyright infringement was substantial and would be donated to charity.
Details of last month's finding by the Court of Appeal in London emerged in a written case order divulged Wednesday by lawyers for Associated, which publishes the Mail on Sunday newspaper and MailOnline.
The order said Associated should also pay £300,000 to Markle for legal costs.
Associated had said it was mulling a further appeal to the UK's Supreme Court, after a High Court judge initially ruled in the former TV actress's favour last year without a full trial.
But according to the BBC, the company has now accepted defeat in the long-running case.
The duchess had sued Associated over the publication in 2019 by the Mail on Sunday of a letter she had written to her estranged father.
Lawyers for Associated had argued that Markle wrote the correspondence knowing it was likely to be leaked, despite claiming the opposite.
Last month, Markle apologised to the appeals court after admitting she had allowed a former aide to brief the authors of a favourable biography of her short tenure as a frontline royal in Britain, despite previous denials on the matter.
Markle, 40, and Harry, 37, now live in California after stepping down from royal duties in 2019. They have taken legal action against a number of publications, alleging invasion of privacy.