安德鲁·蒙巴顿-温莎针对泰晤士河谷警方此前导致其被捕的搜查令所提起的法律诉讼已获胜诉。
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has won his legal challenge against Thames Valley police over search warrants that led to his arrest.
这位前王子对警方及批准搜查令的中央刑事法院的行为提起了司法审查。
The former prince brought a judicial review of the legality of the force’s actions and those of the central criminal court, which granted the warrants.
周四，伦敦高等法院的希利亚德法官表示，泰晤士河谷警方已承认其在错误的法定条款下获得了搜查权，因此裁定搜查令不合法。
On Thursday, Mr Justice Hilliard, sitting at the high court in central London, said Thames Valley police had conceded that it obtained the search powers under the wrong statutory provision and ruled that the warrants were unlawful.
这些搜查令由伦敦刑事法庭法官马克·卢克拉夫特御用大律师签发，蒙巴顿-温莎随后于2月19日（其66岁生日当天）因涉嫌公职人员行为不当被捕。
The warrants were issued by the recorder of London, Mark Lucraft KC, at the Old Bailey and Mountbatten-Windsor was subsequently arrested on 19 February his 66th birthday, on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
此次逮捕源于杰弗里·爱泼斯坦档案中披露的信息，指控蒙巴顿-温莎在担任英国贸易特使期间曾与已定罪的儿童性犯罪者爱泼斯坦分享敏感信息。
The arrest followed information that emerged from the Jeffrey Epstein files. It was alleged that when Mountbatten-Windsor was the UK’s trade envoy he shared sensitive information with Epstein, a convicted child sex offender.
警方在逮捕当天搜查了这位前约克公爵在桑德灵厄姆庄园的住所及其位于温莎的前住所皇家小屋。
Police began searching the former Duke of York’s residence on the Sandringham estate, and his former Windsor home, Royal Lodge, on the same day as his arrest.
希利亚德法官表示，虽然搜查令已被撤销，但警方已提出申请，要求保留已扣押的财产，理由是根据另一项法定条款扣押这些财产是合法的。
Hilliard said the search warrants were quashed but police had made an application, which would be heard next year, to retain the property seized, on the basis that it would have been lawful to seize it under a different statutory provision.
法官指出：“搜查令被撤销并不意味着调查结束，也不意味着整个调查过程不合法。”
The judge said: “The fact that the search warrants were quashed does not bring the investigation to an end or mean that the whole of the investigation is unlawful.”
去年年底，查尔斯国王因其与爱泼斯坦的关联，剥夺了其兄弟的王子头衔及公爵爵位。
Late last year, King Charles stripped his brother of his right to be a prince and of his dukedom over his association with Epstein.
他目前从查尔斯国王的私人基金中领取一笔未公开金额的年度津贴，但白金汉宫消息人士向记者明确表示，这笔资金不应用于资助此次司法审查。
He receives an annual stipend, the amount of which has not been disclosed, from King Charles’s private funds, but a palace source told reporters it had been made clear this should not be used to fund the judicial review