Lecture on

Injunction

Contents:
•What is injunction?
•Types of injunction
•Requirements for granting injunction
WHAT IS INJUNCTION?
 WHAT IS INJUNCTION?
 An Injunction is a judicial order, an authoritative warning,

command, directive, ruling or order by a Court of Law which

restrains a person from beginning or continuing an action
threatening or invading the legal right of another, or that
compels a person to carry out a certain act, e.g., to make
restitution to an injured party.

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Kinds /Types of Injuction
 KINDS/TYPES OF INJUNCTION:
 There are different kinds of injunctions:
 i)-    a preliminary injunction which is also called ad-interim injunction,
 ii)-  a temporary restraining order and
 iii)- a permanent injunction which is also called perpetual injunction.
  A preliminary injunction is one which is given to a party prior to a trial. Since a full trial has not
yet occurred, the courts are usually reluctant to issue this type of injunction unless it is
absolutely necessary and great damage may occur without the preliminary injunction.
 Another type of injunction is known as the temporary restraining order. This type of injunction
is very limited in time and scope. The purpose of the temporary restraining order is to give the
court time to review the matter in order to determine whether to grant a preliminary injunction.
 On the other hand, a permanent injunction is one granted after the trial regarding the matter. A
permanent injunction can be issued after a preliminary injunction or temporary restraining
order. If a permanent injunction is granted, it means that the party must either stop acting or
begin acting in a certain way permanently.

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Cont.
 Preventive Injunctions An injunction directing an individual to refrain from doing an 
act is preventive, prohibiti,prohibitory, or negative. This type of injunction prevents a threatened injury, preserves the 
status quo, or restrains thecontinued commission of an ongoing wrong, 
but it cannot be used to redress a consummated wrong or to undo that which has already been done.
 The Florida vote count in the presidential election of 2000 again serves as a good example. There, the Bush campaig
 sought preventive injunctions to restrain various counties from performing recounts 
after the Florida results had been
certified. The Bush campaign did not attempt to overturn results already arrived at, but
 rather attempted to stop new results
from coming in. In turn, the Gore campaign attempted to obtain a preventive injunction to prevent Florida's secretary 
of state from certifying the election results.
 Mandatory Injunctions Although the court is vested with wide discretion to fashion 
injunctive relief, it is also restricted to restraint of a contemplated or threatened action. It also might compel 
Specific Performance of an act. In such a case, it
issues a mandatory injunction, commanding the performance of a positive act. Because mandatory injunctions are har
sh,
courts do not favor them, and they rarely grant them. Such injunctions have been issued to compel the removal of bui
ldings or other structures wrongfully placed upon the land of another.

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 Requirements:

 Requirements:
 In most cases/jurisdictions, an injunction will not be granted unless the party seeking the
injunction can prove that they will cause irreparable injury if the court does not grant the
injunction. Irreparable injury means that the harm inflicted on one party is so bad that no
monetary or other type of payment is a good enough reward for putting up with the
circumstances. In addition, the party must show there is no other remedy available. Furthermore,
the party must demonstrate that if the court balances the parties' interests, the balance will tilt in
favour of the party seeking the injunction.
 To seek an injunction from the Court of Law a lis/case is filed and along-with the main case/plaint
an application for temporary injunction is also filed. The main ingredients of application for
Temporary Injunctions are;
 1-   That the petitioner has strong prima-facie case and there is every likelihood to succeed in the
same.
 2-   That the balance of convenience or that of inconvenience leans in favour of the petitioner.
 3-   That if the temporary injunction is is not granted the petitioner shall suffer an irreparable
loss.

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Q&A

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