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High Court judge accuses Meghan of using media in legal battle

The Duchess of Sussex was yesterday accused by a judge of using the media to fight her privacy battle outside of court.
Meghan, 39, won the right to keep the identities of her five best friends secret after arguing that publicly naming them was an “unacceptable price to pay” in her battle with The Mail on Sunday. She is suing the publisher of the newspaper and the MailOnline website over its publication of extracts from a letter she sent to her estranged father, Thomas Markle, 76.
Mr Justice Warby said at the High Court that the anonymity order would shield the friends “from the glare of publicity in the pre-trial stage”. He said that the decision would be reviewed as the case progressed......

.....The judge said that both sides “have demonstrated an eagerness to play out the merits of their dispute in public, outside the courtroom, and primarily in media reports”. There was evidence that the duchess’s side “have been energetically briefing the media about these proceedings from the outset”....

Who was helping her do this? None other than Omid Scobie, co-author of the biography Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of A Modern Family. Hmmm....

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/m...ules-tvprlw2fw