There may be a right to damages for breach of confidence based on breach of contractual restrictions. The usual rules for damages for breach of contract apply. Damages for injured feelings et cetera are not generally recoverable.\u00a0 There must be an actual quantifiable economic loss.<\/p>\n
Where a wrongdoer benefits from a breach of fiduciary duty or misappropriation of confidential information, an award of an account of profits may be ordered against him.\u00a0 The person who has been wronged has the option of seeking damages or an account of profits.<\/p>\n
In this case, he would be entitled to a greater measure than his or her financial loss.\u00a0 The claimant may choose to seek an award of profits once he has full information and need not do so at the outset of proceedings.<\/p>\n\n
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Range of Remedies A breach of confidence is enforced would be by way of a claim to the High Court (or Circuit Court) for damages (compensation), an account of profits and\/ or an injunction. Damages are compensation for the loss that can be demonstrated in financial terms. An account of profits is the benefit of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13192"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20356,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13192\/revisions\/20356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}