In breach of his duty of confidentiality, a former member of the British security services published confidential information in his memoirs. The memoirs became the subject matter of litigation in Australia and were subsequently published in America. When reporting in connection with the Australian proceedings, two British newspapers published material derived from the memoirs, but not disclosed in open court in Australia. With the licence of the author's Australian publishers, a third newspaper published an extract from them as part of an intended serialisation.The Crown sought permanent injunctions to restrain the first two newspapers from commenting on and reporting the contents of the memoirs; to restrain the other newspaper from serialising the memoirs; and to restrain any future publication of fresh information from any member of the security services: