subject: What makes Information Confidential [print this page] Once information has entered the public domain, it cannot recover the quality of confidence to be protected again. When companies unlawfully disclosure or misuse secret information of other companies, an English Court will award the damage and loss suffered caused by the unlawful use. In addition, the discloser may well find itself restrained by an injunction from using the information in the future, in the basis that it should not be permitted to profit or benefit from its own wrongdoing.
