![The position of a third party who receives the information may be a difficult matter. In Fraser v Thames Television [1983] 2 All ER 101 – the Rock Follies case – Hirst J considered the matter:](https://images.tandf.co.uk/common/jackets/crclarge/978185941/9781859411070.jpg "The position of a third party who receives the information may be a difficult matter. In Fraser v Thames Television [1983] 2 All ER 101 – the Rock Follies case – Hirst J considered the matter:")
ABSTRACT
There is broad and developing equitable doctrine that he who has received information in confidence shall not take unfair advantage of it or profit from the wrongful use or publication of it. He must not make any use of it to the prejudice of him who gave it, without paying him for it ... if, therefore, a defendant is proved to have used confidential information, directly or indirectly obtained from a plaintiff, without his consent, express or implied, he will be guilty of an infringement of the plaintiff’s rights.
