Confidential Information

Confidential Information

1. relationship of confidence

   • spouses
   • friends
   • drawings of royals
   • professional confidentiality
   • employers secrets
   • state secrets

2. Common law rules

   • Coco v AN Clark
     • quality of confidence
     • Implication/obligation of confidence
     • information used without authority
   • Saltman engineering v Campbell
     • secrts cannot be in the public domain
   • Terrapin v Builders Supply
     • could not make competitor product as providd confidentially

3. Trade Secrets

   • Thomas Marshall v Guinle
     • 1. owner believes release would injure him/benefit competitors
     • 2. owner mut believe information is confidential
     • 3. Trade practices taken into account

4. Other

   • Woodword v Hutchins
     • affair
   • Stephens v Avery
     • a secret between friend not necessarily confidential
   • Attorney General v The Observer
     • MI5 secrets

5. Contractual Confidentiallity

   • Tournier v National Bank
     • obligation to keep customer info confidential

6. Third parties

   • Morrison v Moat
     • death bed case

7. Without authority

   • Seager v Copydex
     • fitted carpets
   • Drummond Murray v Yorkshire Fund
     • his choice to leave, they may use

8. Public policy

   • Lion Labour v Evans
     • breathaliser
   • Hubbard v Vosper
     • scientology
   • W v Edgar
     • doctors sanity report
   • Hellewell v Chief Constable
     • shoplifter