Attorney General v Observer Ltd [1990] [1] is an English tort law case on breach of confidentiality.
The Observer and The Guardian published articles on proceedings in the Australian courts by the UK government to stop the publication.
The Attorney General then sought and received an interlocutory injunction restraining publication of information obtained by Wright in June 1986.
The articles in the Observer and Guardian contained no damaging information, meaning no breach of confidentiality.
It was not protected by a defence of prior publication, and the fact that the story was to be published imminently in the US made no difference.