Flynote and Headnote
[1] Equity - Relief - Breach of confidence - Plaintiff without clean hands - Relief cannot be granted.
An officer of a public organisation, in a position of trust with regard to confidential information received by him in the course of his
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duties, does not come "with clean hands" if he has utilised that information for his own ends, and cannot be granted equitable relief.
[2] Equity - Breach of trust - Public servant - Gain from breach - No resulting trust.
5 An officer of a public organisation who gains as a result of a breach of confidential information obtained in the course of his duties does not hold those gains on a resulting trust for the person from whom the information was obtained.
[3] Civil procedure - Pleadings - Claim for further relief - Extends only to 10 ancillary orders.
A claim for further relief only extends to ancillary orders and does not admit a major claim, which must be separately and specifically claimed.
