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Law of Confidence Cheat Sheet (DRAFT) by

Singapore

This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.

Protection

What does the Law of Confidence protect?
Inform­ation/ Ideas which are not in the public domain.
What is Confid­ential Inform­ation?
Inform­ation that is private and not of public knowledge
The inform­ati­on/­ideas can be either commercial or non-co­mme­rcial

Types of Inform­ation that can be protected

Government Secrets
Trade Secrets
Personal Inform­ation
Artistic & Literary inform­ation
Vestwin Trading Pte Ltd v Obegi [2006] SLR 573
  

Elements of breach of confidence

1. The inform­ation must have the quality of confidence (it must be confid­ential)
2. Inform­ation must be disclosed in circum­stances importing an obligation of confidence (there must be a relati­onship of confid­ent­iality)
3. There must unauth­orized use of the inform­ation to the detriment of the party who originally disclosed it (the disclosure must be in breach of confid­ence)
Coco v Clark.