Maurice Blackburn Cashman v Ackland [2001] NSWSC 863

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Maurice Blackburn Cashman v Ackland [2001] NSWSC 863 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 4818/01 HEARING DATE(S) : 27 & 28 September 2001 JUDGMENT DATE : 28 September 2001

PARTIES : Maurice Blackman Cashman (P) Richard Ackland t/a Law Press of Australia (D) JUDGMENT OF : Hamilton J

COUNSEL : Dr P K Cashman & Miss R Gilsenan, Solicitors (P) No appearance (D) SOLICITORS : Maurice Blackburn Cashman (P) No appearance (D) CATCHWORDS : INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY [112], [113] - Other matters - Confidential information - What constitutes and generally - Matters to be established - Remedies for breach - Interlocutory injunction - Confidential material published by defendant in daily newspaper - Injunction restraining further publication futile. Attorney General v Guardian Newspapers Limited (No 2) [1990] 1 AC 109 Coco v A N Clark (Engineers) Ltd [1969] RPC 41 Criminal Justice Commission v Nationwide News Pty Ltd (1994) 28 IPR 360 DPP (Cth) v Kane (1997) 140 FLR 468 CASES CITED : Donnelly v Amalgamated Television Services Pty Ltd NSWSC 5 November 1998 unreported Hodgson CJ in Eq Hitchcock v TCN Channel Nine Pty Ltd (No 2) [2000] NSWCA 82 Hitchcock v TCN Channel Nine Pty Ltd [2000] NSWSC 198 Johns v Australian Securities Commission (1993) 178 CLR 408 Mainbridge Industries Pty Ltd v Whitewood (1984) 73 FLR 117 Westpac Banking Corporation v John Fairfax Group Pty Ltd (1991) 19 IPR 513 DECISION : Ex parte injunction refused in respect of material made public in newspaper but granted for short finite period in respect of material not so published - otherwise unpublished material ordered to be removed from website.