LAWS2003 Chapter Notes - Chapter Review: Castrol, Fide, Reverse Engineering
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Breach of confidence: a confidant is not allowed to use confidential information from the confider where it was imparted on the understanding that the information is confidential. Coco v clarke: a confidence is formed when one party (confider) tells the other (confidant) a secret or confidential information private or secret matters on the express or implied understanding that the communication is for a restrictive purpose. Format of information: breach of confidence applies to information in verbal and written form printers and finishers v. Holloway: information can also be photographic abc v lenah game meats, information can be video kwok v thang. Q: is the information confidential: information must not be in the public domain or common knowledge saltman engineering v. Campbell engineering: information is confidential if it is available to one person or a group of people and generally not available to others, provided that person or group intends the information not to be made available to others.
