Team of people, including Claimant, put together a business plan with view to securing assets of a company.
Information was disclosed to a potential financial backer of plan (Defendant), who stated he was happy to finance project provided Claimant had no part; other members of team consented to Claimant being excluded and carried on without him.
Claimant claimed for breach.
Confidential information came into being for purpose of facilitating project.
Thus when Claimant was excluded from project, had no right to control how information was used.
Solution based on expectations of parties
I.e. was not binding agreement that all parties had to take part in project
Thus any one of them could have withdrawn at any time
Thus info obviously was an adjunct to project
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