Prince Charles 1: Associated Newspapers 0

In an application for directions inwards a summary judgment application, Mr Justice Kitchen has constitute that cloth pertaining to Prince Charles’ journals, inwards which he recorded inter alia his impressions of his watch to 1997 Hong Kong should rest confidential pending the outcome of the summary judgment proceedings.

This circular of the proceedings concerned journals listed inwards Confidential Schedule i to the Particulars of Claim in addition to the contents of pages i in addition to ii of Confidential Exhibit 2 (a listing of the recipients of the Hong Kong Journal in addition to an representative of a re-create roofing letter that accompanied that journal).

Prince Charles at the 1997 Hong Kong handover

Kitchin J constitute that both sets of prove were confidential (the defendant, Associated Newspapers, had accepted that this was the representative alongside regard to Confidential Exhibit 2).

The estimate too made an social club nether CPR 31.22. CPR 31.22 allows orders to survive made “restricting or prohibiting the run of a document which has been disclosed [in legal proceedings], fifty-fifty where the document has been read to or past times the court, or referred to, at a hearing which has been held inwards public”. Here at that topographic point were practiced reasons for departing from the park dominion of publicity. The documents inwards number were closely related to the real dependent area affair which Prince Charles was seeking to protect past times agency of this activeness for breach of confidence. Any chilling termination on tertiary parties would survive limited. Moreover, making the social club would facilitate a populace hearing past times putting proper safeguards inwards house to protect the confidential information.

reckons that this representative promises to survive first-class sport. In particular, the number of which of in addition to to what extent the Prince’s activities are inwards the populace domain – a affair touched on briefly inwards the application - volition survive real tricky.