https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-meghan-markle-loses-latest-22760839.amp
Last week, the paper applied for permission to amend its case, arguing that the couple had cooperated with a biography about them which was published in August, and that showed Meghan had intended some private details to become public, including the contents of the letter.
先週、夫妻が8月に出版された暴露本の執筆に協力し、その事実からメーガンが手紙の内容も含め、私生活の話が公にされることを承知していたはずであるとして、新聞社は申し立て内容について修正を求めていた。
The judge, Francesca Kaye, said that while she made no view on the strength of the Mail's case, the amendments could not be said to be 'unarguable or utterly fanciful'.
新聞社は、メーガンが自身の主張を正当化するため、Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durandに父に送った手紙について情報を提供したと反論した。
それに対しメーガンの弁護士軍団は、公爵と公爵夫人がその作者たちに協力したというのは都市伝説であり、本の中に登場する手紙の内容は被告が出版した記事からの引用に過ぎないと一蹴していた。
The publisher argued that Meghan gave the authors, Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, information about the letter to Mr Markle "in order to set out her own version of events in a way that is favourable to her".
But Meghan's lawyers said accusations the duke and duchess "collaborated" with the authors was a "conspiracy theory" and argued that references to the letter in the book were simply "extracts from the letter lifted from the defendant's own articles".