The Weekly Law Reports
[1998] 2 WLR 805
[COURT OF APPEAL]
ATTORNEY-GENERAL v. BLAKE JONATHAN CAPE LTD. (Third Party)
1997 Oct. 6,
7;
Dec. 1; 16
Dec. 1; 16
Lord Woolf M.R., Millett and Mummery L.JJ.
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
— Breach of undertaking not to disclose information without consent
— Information no longer confidential or secret
— Whether fiduciary duty owed to Crown not to use position so as to generate personal profit
— Whether royalties and other payments recoverable by Crown
— Whether Crown entitled to restitutionary damages for breach of contract
Attorney-General
— Powers and duties
— Public interest
— Enforcement of criminal law
— Whether Attorney-General entitled to injunction in public interest