Judge who ruled against Mail on Sunday in favour of Duchess of Sussex privacy case once defended the tabloid against Prince Charles
Lord Justice Warby, the UK s leading expert on privacy law, also represented the News of the World in the infamous Max Mosley case
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As plain Mark Warby, he acted for the tabloid newspaper after it was sued by Prince Charles over its publication of extracts from his 1997 journal on the handover of Hong Kong to the Chinese.
The legal action brought by Prince Charles, the Duchess of Sussex’s father-in-law, in 2006 was in itself a groundbreaking case. The heir to the throne had written a 3,000-word journal on his way back from the Hong Kong handover, under the heading The Great Chinese Takeaway .