What is the "springboard" doctrine for obtaining confidential or confidential information from a public source?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from GasTOPS Ltd. v. Forsyth, 2009 CanLII 66153 (ON SC):
The “springboard” doctrine applies not only to confidential information, but also to information which is partly public and partly confidential or to information which, having been disclosed in confidence to certain recipients, then falls into the public domain. In Seager v. Copydex Ltd., [1967] 1 W.L.R. 923 (C.A.) at 931 Lord Denning stated: When the information is mixed, being partly public and partly private then the recipient must take special care to use only the material which is in the public domain. He should go to the public source and get it: or, at any rate, not be in a better position than if he had gone to the public source.
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