The Weekly Law Reports
[1996] 3 WLR 741
[CHANCERY DIVISION]
ATTORNEY-GENERAL
v.
BLAKE JONATHAN CAPE LTD. (THIRD PARTY)
[1991 Ch. A. No. 5863]
1996 April 1,
2;
19
Sir Richard Scott V.-C.
Confidential Information
— Breach of confidence
— Public interest
— Former Crown servant convicted of espionage publishing autobiography
— Use of information acquired in course of service as secret intelligence officer
— Information no longer secret or confidential
— Whether fiduciary duty owed to Crown not to use position so as to generate personal profit
— Whether royalties and other payments to defendant recoverable by Crown