Cases

Tillery Valley Foods Ltd v Channel Four Television Corpn & Another

Held

Refusing the injunction: (1) the footage was not confidential. It was not sufficient simply to point to the breach of the employee's contract to establish the necessary degree of confidence. The issue was whether the information was confidential and ABC v Lenah Game Meats showed that this type of information was not confidential. (2) The public interest clearly favoured transmission; (3) the law did not recognise the "right of reply" contended for by the Claimants; (4) the reality was this was a defamation claim dressed up as a breach of confidence in order to attempt to get round the rule in Bonnard v Perryman.

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