Decided 13 January 2006 End date January 13, 2006 Ruling court High Court of Justice | Citation(s) [2006] EWHC 11 (Ch) Judge sitting David Kitchin | |
Full case name His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales v Associated Newspapers Limited Transcript(s) His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales v. Associated Newspapers Ltd | ||
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2006] EWHC 11 (Ch) is an English legal case brought about when The Mail on Sunday published extracts of a dispatch by Charles, Prince of Wales, the heir to the British throne.
The extracts published from the dispatch; titled "The Great Chinese Takeaway", were personally embarrassing to the Prince. The dispatch had been written on the flight back from Hong Kong to the United Kingdom from the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong to China, and had been handed out to friends. The Prince described the Hong Kong handover ceremony as an "awful Soviet-style" performance and "ridiculous rigmarole" and the likened Chinese officials to "appalling old waxworks". .
Judgment
The Prince won the case and gained an injunction which prevented The Mail on Sunday from publishing further extracts from the diary.